Mark Twain, business man /

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Twain, Mark,, 1835-1910. Mark Twain, business man / edited by Samuel Charles Webster. - 1st ed.. - Boston : Little, Brown, 1946.
xii, 409 p., [15] p. of plates : ill., facsims., 1 geneal. table, 1 map, ports. ; 22 cm. "An Atlantic Monthly Press book." "The intimate record of Mark Twain's extraordinary business career, revealed in his hitherto unpublished correspondence"--Dust jacket. Content notes : Foreword -- Genealogy of Mark Twain's immediate family -- 1. Ancestry and background -- 2. Sam starts his career -- 3. The first notebook -- 4. On the river -- 5. As his niece remembers him -- 6. Romance and prophesy -- 7. Border state confusion -- 8. Miner -- 9. Reporter -- 10. Seeing the world -- 11. Married -- 12. A year in Buffalo -- 13. Hartford and fame -- 14. Relatives -- 15. Crosscurrents -- 16. Mark Twain vs. Mark Twain -- 17. Mostly remodeling -- 18. Enter the typesetter -- 19. The author figures profits -- 20. Scoundrels, thieves, and publishers -- 21. Webster learns the publishing business -- 22. The history game -- 23. Playwright -- 24. Back to the book business -- 25. Huck Finn -- 26. Dear Charley -- 27. Mark Twain, lecturer -- 28. Publishing pays, for the typesetter -- 29. General Grant's Memoirs -- 30. Some heartfelt curses -- 31. Money pours in, and out -- 32. The Pope's biography -- 33. What really happened -- 34. Webster retires. * Twain, Mark,, 1835-1910. Webster, Charles L.,, 1851-1891 - Correspondence. * Authors, American - Biography. - 19th century * Webster, Samuel Charles. * Title