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A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings by Mark Twain; Livy Clemens; Susy Clemens Copyright © 2014, 2001 by the Mark Twain Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Transcription, reconstruction, and creation of the texts, introduction, and notes, Copyright © 2014 by The Regents of the University of California. The Mark Twain Foundation expressly reserves to itself, its successors and assigns, all dramatization rights in every medium, including without limitation stage, radio, television, motion picture, and public reading rights, in and to these texts and all other texts by Mark Twain and members of his family in copyright to the Mark Twain Foundation.

All texts by Mark Twain and his family members in A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings have been published previously, by permission of the Mark Twain Foundation, in the Mark Twain Project’s Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 2001). “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It” was first published in the Atlantic Monthly, November 1874. “Mark Twain by Susy Clemens” was published, by permission of the Mark Twain Foundation, as Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Twain, Mark, 1835–1910.

    [Works. Selections]

    A family sketch and other private writings / Mark Twain, Livy Clemens, Susy Clemens ; edited by Benjamin Griffin of the Mark Twain Project.

        pages cm. — (Jumping frogs: undiscovered, rediscovered, and celebrated writings of Mark Twain ; 5) Includes bibliographical references.

    ISBN 978-0-520-28073-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-520-95963-7 (ebook)

    1. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910—Family.    2. Authors, American—19th century—Biography.    I. Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 1845–1904.    II. Clemens, Susy, 1872–1896.    III. Griffin, Benjamin, 1968– editor.    IV. Title.

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    818’.409--dc232014008634

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