Daniel Boone Regional Library

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Biography

• Biography TV
  Brief biography of Mark Twain.
• The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, Hannibal
  Visit Hannibal, Missouri, where Samuel Clemens (and others who influenced his characters) grew up.
• The Mark Twain House, Hartford, CT
  Information about Twain’s home and museum in Hartford; includes a history of the life of Mark Twain as well as brief descriptions of his works.
• Mark Twain on PBS website
  Includes an interactive scrapbook that tells Twain’s life story through a collection of texts, photos, illustrations, and clippings from his day. Includes a list of of Twain-related links.
• Mark Twain, Union Man
  Hartford resident Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) was also an active participant in and staunch advocate of the growing labor movement in the U.S.

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Public Domain Texts

• American Literature Library
  Although a commercial site, this website offers free public domain editions of many of Twain’s works.
• Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
  This collection offers a complete early edition of Huckleberry Finn, the 174 illustrations from the first edition: dozens of early reviews from newspapers and magazines across the country; early ads; the London and American first edition covers; and a 1930 article by E.W. Kemble describing his experiences illustrating Huckleberry Finn.
• Mark Twain Texts
  Free public domain editions of many of Twain’s works.

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Kids and Teachers

• American Memory Project – Library of Congress
  Enter Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens in the search box to access the various documents related to Twain in this collection.
• Mark Twain and the American West
  In this lesson, students learn how Samuel Clemens became America’s first celebrity author, the transformation of Clemens into Twain, the clothing he used to project a public image, the writing style for which he would become America’s most beloved author.
  

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Research

• Buffalo & Erie County Library (NY)
  The Mark Twain Room, a special exhibition room at the library, is the home of Twain's original handwritten manuscript, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain was an active member of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library's predecessor, the Young Men's Association and honored the Library with the manuscript of what is viewed by many as the greatest American novel.
• Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, NY
  Elmira College is one of the leading Centers for Mark Twain research in the world. Established in 1983, the Center awards fellowships to internationally-renowned scholars, hosts a lecture series and offers a graduate certificate in Mark Twain Studies. It also hosts a quadrennial Mark Twain Conference.
• Mark Twain in his Times
  From the University of Virginia, this interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today.
• UC-Berkeley, Bancroft Library
  This library maintains an archive of Mark Twain Papers, including the private papers of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) that he himself made available to his official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. This basic core of original documents was deposited at Berkeley in 1949 and bequeathed to the University of California upon the death in 1962 of Mark Twain's sole surviving daughter, Clara Clemens Samossoud. The Library has continued to add original documents to that basic core. Information about this collection and how to use it for research can be found on this site.
• Twain Web
  TwainWeb is the web service of the Mark Twain Forum, a mailing list for persons having a scholarly interest in the life and writings of Mark Twain (1835-1910).

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