Mark Twain manuscript sells for $242,500
“NEW YORK (Reuters) – A tribute written by American novelist and satirist Mark Twain to his daughter, who died of spinal meningitis at the age of 24, sold at auction on Thursday for $242,500, almost doubling pre-sale estimates.
The unpublished “A Family Sketch” was a 64-page, handwritten manuscript that Twain wrote around 1896 or 1897 for Olivia “Susy” Clemens, who inspired some of his stories and even wrote her own biography of her father.
The document also reminisced about his own childhood and was described as the missing chapter of his autobiography.”
Source: Reuters, Yahoo
Written by Belinda Goldsmith, edited by Dean Goodman.
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