@book{ title = "Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909", author = "Twain, Mark,Leary, Lewis", year = "[1969]", publisher = "University of California Press", publisher = "Walter de Gruyter GmbH", address = "Berkeley, CA", language = "eng", howpublished = "online", isbn = "9780520905061", note = "10.1525/9780520905061", note = "Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)", series = "Mark Twain Papers, 4", content = "Cover", url = "https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520905061", abstract = "This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens's correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and-in private-long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers's magnificent yacht." }