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CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'Mark Twain' Autograph letter signed ("Mark Twain"), to Miss Helen Ingleby "& the other friends", of Heacham Hall, Norfolk, 'IT IS A PLEASANTLY ASTONISHING THING TO BE GREETED WITH SALUTATIONS FROM THE BLOOD OF POCAHONTAS', Riverdale-on-Hudson, 1 November 1901
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CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'Mark Twain'
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'IT IS A PLEASANTLY ASTONISHING THING TO BE GREETED WITH SALUTATIONS FROM THE BLOOD OF POCAHONTAS' – Mark Twain writes to a descendant of John Rolfe and Pocahontas at Heacham Hall, Norfolk; this being the Rolfe family seat, which the princess and her son, Thomas Rolfe, visited in 1618, a year before her death; Twain adding that "it is a long time since anything less expected has happened to me. It makes me feel pretty recent, as to American origin". His three-act Meisterschaft (1888) was described as a 'Patent Universally-Applicable Automatically-Adjustable Language Drama... adjustable to any tongue, and performable in any tongue'.





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