Cryptic Mark Twain Letter from London Concerning a Mysterious Stone, Perhaps a Diamond
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, has been lauded as the “greatest humorist this country has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, has been lauded as the “greatest humorist this country has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called “The Great American Novel”.
Autograph Letter Signed, London, January 31 (circa 1900,) concerning a mysterious stone. “I know of nothing new. If that story said I found that stone otherwise than simply worthless, it did not speak the truth. Very truly yours, Mark T.”
Twain lived in Europe, mainly London and Austria, from time to time from 1897 to 1900, leaving London and Europe in the fall of the latter year. Could the stone have been what looked like a diamond from when he toured the DeBeers mines in Africa in 1896, which he documents in “Follow the Equator”? We cannot be sure, but it seems like a logical conjecture.
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