Show SOME OF THE TIlE ILLS THAT THAl 7 HAVE HA VE BESET AMERICAS ARCH JESTER 1860 about Mark Twain loses his money coat trousers and boots playing cards with General Bunker He and a friend named Hig Higgins Higgins Higgins gins stake out a silver mining claim In Nevada Twain goes away awa to care for a sick friend and Higgins on some errand Thus they lose los a claim that made millions for others 1894 His entire fortune is swept away awa in the failure of the publishing house of Charles L Webster Co which had been financed mainly by himself him elf 1896 His eldest most accomplished daughter Olivia Susan Clemens dies at atthe atthe atthe the hour of her great promise while ler Ier father is abroad Reported destitute and dying in London friends In America raise r lse a purse of for him but he ho refuses to accept It as his case is i not hope hopeless hopeless hopeless less 1904 His wife who was our life dies In Florence Italy whither the family had moved in the hope that the climate would restore her to health 1904 In Florence Italy he is forced into a lawsuit with the sagUa from whom he rented the villa villain villain in which his wife had Just died 1907 He loses his Investment of cash by the failure of the Plas mon company com ny of America Am of which he be was president and av a director 1907 His boys masterpieces Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn with withheld withheld withheld held from youths of Brooklyn public pub lc libraries as unfit for young minds 1907 Comptroller Joy of Detroit Mich declares Twains book A Dou Detective Story Star Is liter literary literary literary ary junk unfit for a public library 1907 A Massachusetts public library refuses to give shelf shelt room to his book bookE Eves E s Diary declaring It shocking 1909 Illness prevents his taking an active part in the tho Congo a crusade which he had long prosecuted with his pen with King Leopold of Belgium pic pie pictured pictured as the arch offender I 1909 A lifetime votary of tobacco a tobacco heart reduces him to four s a day instead of oC lila his continuous continuOus ous performance on pipe and cigars 1909 Failure of the Childrens The Theatre Theatre Theatre atre founded by Mark Marlc Twain In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and representing one of his life lifetime lifetime lifetime time ambitions 1909 19 0 His book Is Shakespeare Dead charged to be partly plagiarized plagiarIzed from Greenwoods The Shakes Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare peare Problem Restated 1909 Broken down by the strain of speaking Mark Twain is forced to leave New York quiet and rest Test In his Connecticut villa 1909 The humorist and his daughter are Involved In a humiliating contro controversy controversy versy ersy regarding a farm given o his former secretary Mrs Ralph W Ash Ashcroft Ashcroft Ashcroft croft when Mr Clemens attaches the property pr on his daughters advice 1909 Mrs Clarence E EX Wark tries to serve Mrs the former Miss MIB Clara Clemens with papers In a I alienation suit 1909 Daughter and Ossip honeymoon voyage is postponed by the bridegrooms attack of December 24 1909 Jean Clemens his daughter is found drowned in the bath bathtub bathtub bathtub tub at their home In Redding Conn |