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Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942)
Mark Twain, ca. 1906
Gelatin silver print
Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society, Jessie Tarbox Beals Collection
Having concluded Innocents Abroad, Twain was "moved to confess that day by day the mass of my memories of the excursion have grown more and more pleasant." Such memories would only amplify over the years so much so that towards the end of his life Twain called his final residence in Redding, Connecticut "Innocence at Home." |