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Missouri Historical Review, Volume 19 Issue 2, January 1925

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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 19 Issue 2, January 1925
Volume	19
Issue	2
Month	January
Year	1925
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 262
Page Number	262
Article Title	The Missouri Mark Twain Collection
Author	Dunbar, Laverne J.
Subject	Literature
Volume	19
Issue	2
Month	January
Year	1925
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	262 MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW THE MISSOURI MARK TWAIN COLLECTION BY LAVERNE J. DUNBAR The second most complete Mark Twain library in existence has been recently collected by The State Historical Society of Missouri. The collection is the result of over forty years' work by the late Mr. F. A. Sampson, former secretary of the Society, and Mr. Purd B. Wright, librarian of the Kansas City Public Library. The compilation of a special catalog was in charge of Miss Ruth Woolman, the Society's cataloger, who used the classification scheme of the Shakespearian library of the University of Illinois, which she altered to fit the particular instance. Two hundred and fifty-five volumes, 122 newspaper clippings, 979 cartoons, 174 large comic strips and 14 scrap books make up the collection. Of the bound volumes, 135 were supplied by Mr. Wright. Most of the clippings represent a system of cutting and saving that Mr. Wright has been practicing for over twenty years. About 50 volumes of the collection were gathered by Mr. Sampson. The remaining volumes have been gathered by the Society during the last twenty-five years. The newspaper folios include clippings of incidents in and around Florida and Hannibal. These clippings are taken from newspapers and magazines in the towns which Mark Twain knew and about which he wrote. There are included also articles about his boyhood days and about memorials planned for Florida and Hannibal. Two folios are devoted to cartoons of Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn, drawn by Clare Victor Dwiggins. Most of these were tak^n from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, El Paso Herald Jr., San Francisco Chronicle and miscellaneous collections. When Mark Twain came to the University of Missouri in 1904 to have the LL.D. degree conferred upon him he pre-

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