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MARK TWAIN, BUSINESS MAN-edited by Samuel Charles Webster-'Little, Brown...
...Author Twain entered old age, some half a million dollars in the red, he attributed his losses to the fact that the world was overrun with "idiots," "moral icebergs," "thieves,'' "swindlers" and "pirates." Outstanding among these wretches, he insisted, was his niece's husband, Charles L. Webster, who served for five nerve-racking years (1884 through 1888) as Twain's business manager and publisher...
Hamlet's Father. Now, Samuel Charles Webster has written this book to clear his father's name. His argument: Twain's bitterness about Manager Webster was a product of his crusty old age; Webster did a fine job, including the skillful publishing and promotion of the century's two literary smash hits (Huckleberry Finn and General Grant's Memoirs). Webster's evidence: Twain's letters, now published in book form, to "Dear Charley"-many of which show great respect for Webster. and all of'which indicate that Webster would have...
...Uncle Sam" (Twain) gave Webster a flying start by putting him in charge of the Kaolatype-a brand-new chalkplate process for engraving illustrations. "This invention," wrote Twain confidently, ". . . will utterly annihilate and sweep out of existence one of the minor industries of civilization. ... I wish to give you $100 of its stock, now, anyhow, & make you Vice President & Treasurer-also Manager. . . . Act fearlessly & with decision...
After years of this, Manager Webster suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the quiet countryside, where he spent his few remaining years carving ship models and looking at the stars through a telescope. Pope Leo XIII created him a Knight of the Order of Pius for publishing his biography. In later years, Uncle Sam once said acidly: "If the Pope made Webster a knight, he ought to have made him an archangel...