Comm 1 Assignment

1. Samuel L. Clemens or Mark Twain has lived in Hartford for several years and has written a classic American novel entitled Huckleberry Finn.

2. Mark Twain’s elaborate and elegant house was situated in Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm, near the house of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s cabin.

3. The windows and balcony, of Mark Twain’s house, that overlook the large side porch remind the people today of a steamboat for in Twain’s youth, he piloted a steamboat. 

4. Marl Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone-- a gadget which was first commercially used in nearby New Haven-- but he never really liked this newfangled gadget for there was practically no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions so he invented an elaborate Paige typesetter, unfortunately, this machine was invented at the same time a simpler and cheap machine called Linotype was invented, so as a result he lost a fortune on his investment.

6. Mark Twain’s beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in their Hartford home, after that, Twain never felt the same about their house again so he left Hartford but he returned once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.