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Re: What is the True Origin of the Name "Mark Twain"
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Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:54:49 -0400
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In DeVoto's Mark Twain in Eruption there is a passage with Twain discussing
the Snodgrass Letters and the nom de guerre Mark Twain as well.  Quoting
from what Clemens apparently dictated to his biographer...he used the name
first in 1859 in order to satire Capt. Isaiah Sellers.
 
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