Series 1, Correspondence

Box 1

Folder 1. Correspondence relating to Crawford’s research on Mark Twain, 1943-1944

Folder 2. Correspondence relating to Crawford’s research on Mark Twain, 1945-2006

Series 2, Photographs

Folder 3

• #2 Mark Twain in Quarry Farm Studio taken July 27, 1903
• #3 Mark Twain (by T.E. Morr) taken July 27, 1903
• #4 Mark Twain leaving the study at Quarry Farm, taken July 27, 1903
• #5 Mark Twain Study at Quarry Farm, Elmira, N.Y. where he wrote Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer
• #7 Mark Twain and possible “negro servant” Lewis
• #8 Mark Twain and possible “negro servant” Lewis
• Bronze plaques of Mark Twain and Ossip Gabrilowtsch (husband of Twain’s daughter Clara) on monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y., 1939
• Photograph taken October 15, 1943 of a 1903 portrait of Mark Twain
• Photograph of Allen P. Crawford looking at a bust of Mark Twain by sculptor Ernfred Anderson, 1944, oversize
• Dr. Rufus R. Wilson and Allen P. Crawford, holding caricatures of Mark Twain, Elmira, N.Y., November 7, 1943
• Dr. Rufus R. Wilson and Allen P. Crawford, sitting with display of Mark Twain caricatures, Elmira, N.Y., November 7, 1943

Folder 4

• Stones, contract with Mrs. T.K. Beecher and Mark Twain, 1895 (Elmira, N.Y. November 14, 1943), 6 photographs
• Horse trough along the road at Quarry Farm, near the house - Olivia Susan Clemens, photo 1943
• Gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N. Y.

Folder 5

• Etching of Mark Twain’s study at Quarry Farm, East Hill, Elmira, N.Y. by H.E. Thompson
• Photograph of rebuilt Stormfield mansion. Originally built in Redding, Connecticut for Mark Twain who lived there from 1908-1910. Rebuilt after 1923 fire.
• Photograph of Mark Twain Library, Jean L. Clemens Memorial Building – the original Mark Twain Library, Redding, Connecticut
• Photograph of Mark Twain Library sign and mail box, Redding, Connecticut
• Photograph of sign, “The Mark Twain” restaurant, Redding, Connecticut

Series 3, Images of Mark Twain

Folder 6:

• “Portraits of Mark Twain,” pages 75-76, unknown publication
• Advertisement, Sidney Janis Gallery; Mark Twain cast bronze sculpture, 1983; clipping from Art in America Magazine, April 1986
• Brochure, bronze bas relief replicas of John Flanagan’s Mark Twain, Medallic Art Company, 1935
• Drawing of Mark Twain riding a frog, “American Humor,” by Fred Waddy, from Cartoon Portraits and Biographical sketches of Men of The Day, London, 1874
• Printed photograph of Twain with a quote from Twain’s book Following the Equator - A journey around the world, 1897
• Silhouette of Mark Twain with quote (2 copies) [possibly used by Crawford as a Christmas card 1944]
• Sketch of Mark Twain, artist’s name is illegible

Series 4, Miscellaneous

Folder 7: RSVP card for Allen P. Crawford Lecture, “Mark Twain: Master of Horse Sense and Nonsense”

Folder 8. Brochures, The Mark Twain Association Quotation Contest publications, 1929-1946

Folder 9. Script, “Invitation to Learning: Twain-Huckleberry Finn,” A CBS Public Affairs Broadcast, Vol. 2, No. 11, September 10, 1950. Folder 10. Publications of Elmira College, Center for Mark Twain Studies

• Dear Friends, Center for Mark Twain Studies, Spring 2006
• “Mark Twain’s Favorite Place,” A Foretaste of Heaven.
• Brochure of Elmira College, Center for Mark Twain Studies

Series 5, Book excerpts, newspaper clippings, magazine articles

Box 2:

Folder 11: Book Excerpts

• Wilson, Dr. R. R. Mark Twain’s Days in Elmira. N.Y. in Literature, 1947.
• Pellowe, Rev. W. C. Mark Twain: Pilgrim From Hannibal. 1945.
• Wallace, Irving “The Man Who Loved His Wife,” Sex lives of Important People, (1981), 173.
• Robert D. Jerome and Herbert A. Wisbey, Mark Twain in Elmira (Mark Twain Society Inc., 1977), 36-39, 214-215.
• Neider, Charles, The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Perennial Classics, 248-251.
• Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography, The University of Wisconsin Press, 62-63
• The Mark Twain Encyclopedia (edited by J.R. LeMaster and James D. Wilson), Garland Publishing, Inc.,1993.
• Excerpt from an unidentified book (torn out page), “Mark Twain.”

Folder 12: Book Reviews of Works pertaining to Mark Twain

• Budd, Louis J., Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality, American Literature (October 1984). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
• American Literature (December 1984). Emerson, Everett, The Authentic Mark Twain: A Literary Biography of Samuel L. Clemens, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.
• American Literature (May 1985). Schirer, Thomas, Mark Twain and The Theatre. Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1984.
• South Atlantic Review (January 1986). Edited by Sara deSaussure Davis and Philip D. Beidler, The Mythologizing of Mark Twain, University of Alabama Press, 1984.
• The New England Quarterly (December 1986). Eble, Kenneth E., Old Clemens and W.D.H.: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1985.

Folder 13: Newspaper and Magazine Articles relating to Mark Twain

• “2,000 Honor Twain on Date of Death,” The New York Times (April 22, 1960).
• “Clemens’s Letters, Being Published, Reveal Different Side of Mark Twain,” The New York Times (July 13, 1987).
• “Elmira - Elmira in Chemug County, New York, inspired Mark Twain’s greatest works”, US Arts, June 1986.
• “From Sebastian Miniatures: The Mark Twain Family”, Ad for Mark Twain related miniature statues, Americana, August 1985.
• “Hal Holbrook as Twain in His Masterful, One-Man Show,” Horizon, November 1985.
• “Hal Holbrook to Mark Twain in Three Hours,” National Press Photographer, undated.
• “Letters Suggest Twain No Friend of Racism,” Anderson Independent-Mail (March 15, 1985).
• “Mark Twain in Elmira,” The New York Times (May 4, 1986).
• “Twain Estate Mounts,” The New York Times (April 20, 1960).
• “Twain in Main,” Americana, November-December, 1985
• “Twain Letters on Married Life Are Donated to U. of California,” The New York Times (August 22, 1972).
• “Twain Today,” Horizon, November 1985. Folder 14. “The Story of the Tell-Tale Hands of Mark Twain,” Borderland, January 1895.
• Adams, Val, “Holbrook Quits TV Roles as Twain,” The New York Times (April 15, 1960).
• Berry, Marty, “Johnny Jame’s Twain at least ‘large as life,’” The Greenville News (November 2, 1985).
• DeMott, “In The American Vein,” The New York Times Book Review (July 3, 1966).
• Fiedler, Leslie, “Travels With a Literary Source-Hunter,” The New York Times Book Review (April 3, 1960).
• Griffith, Benjamin W., “They Traveled With Mark Twain,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine (March 19, 1972).
• Griffith, Martin, “Twain Letters a Staple on Auction Blocks,” The Greenville News (December 23, 2001).
• Kakutani, Michiko, “Adapting and Analyzing Twain’s ‘Huck Finn,’” The New York Times (February 24, 1986).
• Langdon, Jervis, “Mark Twain Among His Anti-Slavery In-Laws,” The New York Times (April 7, 1985).
• Mailer, Norman, “Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100,” The New York Times Book Review (December 9, 1984).
• Shanley, John P., “TV: About Mark Twain” (April, 3, 1960).
• Smith, Betty, “Redding Joins Old and New In Expanded Twain Library” Bridgeport Sunday Post (April 2, 1972).
• Walter, David L., “Mark Twain Didn’t Say it,” The New York Times (September 16, 1971).

Folder 15. “Mark Twain,” by Everett Shinn, The Critic, March 1900.

Folder 16. “Mark Twain’s 70th Birthday” (Supplement to Harper’s Weekly, December 23, 1905)

Folder 17. “England’s Ovation to Mark Twain,” by Sydney Brooks, Harper’s Weekly, July 27, 1907.

Folder 18. “Mark Twain: His Story, His Work, and His Personality. His Homes, Haunts, and Habits of Life,” The Mentor, May 1924.

Folder 19. “Mark Twain’s Friendship Inspired Little Girl to Successful Career,” Dorothy Quick, Advance, February 1940.

Folder 20. “Tom Sawyer’s Town,” by Jerry Allen, The National Geographic Magazine, July 1956.

Folder 21. “Mark Twain Speaks Out: Four Unpublished Pieces,” by Charles Neider, Harper’s Magazine, December 1958.

Folder 22. “Mark Twain: An Unsentimental Journey,” by Dwight MacDonald, The New Yorker, April 9, 1960.

Folder 23. “Tom and Huck Among the Indians.” Unpublished Manuscript by Mark Twain, Life, December 20, 1968, p.33.

Folder 24. “Our Neighbor Mark Twain,” by Coley Taylor, American Heritage, February-March, 1985.