A paper presenation for the The Sixth International Conference on The State of Mark Twain Studies, August 6 - 8, 2009.

1. Mark Twain’s Cornell:Recalling Samuel Clemens’s Ithaca Friends Lance J. Heidig Cornell University Library August 6, 2009

2. Cornell University – 1880 Panorama of campus, looking north from Sage College tower with Sage Chapel in the foreground.Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

3. Henry W. Sage “Mr. Clemens, you’ve got as clear a business head on your shoulders as I have come in contact with for years. What are you an author for? You ought to be a business man.” Autobiography, Vol. 2, p. 138. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

4. Dean Sage Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library “…through his friendship with Uncle Joe Twichell of Harford, Father had become intimate with that Hartford group of Charles Dudley Warner, Samuel Clemens, and others.” from My Father Dean Sage

5. Clemens letter to Mr. Krueger “…for we do want you to go Cornell & hope you will. The Sages are there, temporarily, --till they go to heaven where they belong-- & there are other good & great folks there. ” S.L.Clemens. July 22, 1883 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

6. Mark Twain in Ithaca Twins of Genius Tour with George W. Cable December 3, 1884 Wilgus Opera House

8. Horatio S. White

9. Goldwin Smith

10. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

12. Willard Fiske “Thus I camped out among my books—the first time since the good old days of the Villa Forini. And sat down at my desk all the day….My only breaks were when I drove up for a call at the distant villa of the Clemenses, or when Mark occasionally came down for a talk and an afternoon’s smoke.” --Fiske letter to Sue Warner, wife of Charles Dudley Warner, March 3, 1904 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

14. Ida Langdon

15. Jervis Langdon, Jr.

16. Jean Bancroft Langdon

17. Jervis Langdon III

18. Lee Kiesling

19. Fourth generationCharles Jervis Langdon (seated) and Clemens (?) in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1867. He is wearing an Ottoman Turkish costume, that was later donated to Cornell by his sister, Ida Langdon, and Jervis Landon III. Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, Cornell University

20. Paige Compositor At Cornell’s Sibley Museum, College of Engineering, ca. 1898 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library