From the hand of Mark Twain, a page from “A Family Sketch.” (The Bancroft Library’s Mark Twain Papers & Project) “Family Sketch” is Clemens’ 64-page, unpublished tribute to his daughter, Olivia “Susy” Clemens, who died of spinal meningitis at the age of 24.

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