The 70 th birthday of Mark Twain was a lavish affair held at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City. In introducing Twain, friend William Dean Howells said, “Now, ladies and gentlemen ...

Mark Richards To Mark Twain, San Francisco was coffee with fresh ... “I never saw a more used up, hungrier man, than Clemens,” William Dean Howells, the legendary 19th-century editor of ...