Mark Twain
Humorist and author of some of America's enduring classics, as "Huckleberry Finn." Twain's autograph appears both as his nom de plume and also as Samuel Clemens.
The Only Known Surviving Leaf of Twain's Short Story "In Praise of Women," in 1872
In it, tongue in cheek, he lavishly praises a poem he cannot recall, saying “it seems to me that poem is the noblest tribute to woman that human genius has ever brought forth..."
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