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Lot #577
Samuel L. Clemens Signatures as "S. L. Clemens" and "Mark Twain"

Desirable double signature of the great American author: "Truly yours, S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain"

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Desirable double signature of the great American author: "Truly yours, S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain"

Ink signature, "Truly yours, S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain,” on an off-white 5 x 2.75 card, with ink signature of novelist George Alfred Townsend, on a 3 x 1 off-white slip, below a 5.75 x 8.25 silver print photograph of Townsend (on left) Clemens (middle) and David Gray seated together, taken by Mathew Brady in 1871 when all three men were together in Washington D.C. on a lobbying effort. The signatures and photograph are lightly mounted on a 9.75 x 13.75 gilt-edged album page. In fine condition.

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