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Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell (November 30, 1838 – December 20, 1918) was a writer and Congregational minister from Hartford, Connecticut. He was a close friend of writer Mark Twain for over forty years and is believed to be the model for the character "Harris" in A Tramp Abroad . Twain and Twichell met at a church social after ...
The Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell. (Courtesy of the Mark Twain House & Museum) Mark Twain’s best friend – “first after Livy” – was a minister. Samuel Clemens’s deep cynicism about religious hypocrisy, and his late-period writings in which he faced the universe with near-ostentatious despair, would seem to make such a friendship ...
3 de jul. de 2018 · 03-C2953. Mark Twain, Joseph Twichell, and Religion. PETER MESSENT. √oseph Hopkins Twichell was the popu-lar and much-beloved pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregationalist Church in Hartford, Connecti-cut, for almost forty-seven years, from December 1865 to July 1912.
The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Edited by Harold K. Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2017. 447 pp. $30.61, cloth. Reviewed by Ann M. Ryan, Le Moyne College. One of the most poignant moments in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn occurs Chapter 31.
10 de jul. de 2020 · By Elizabeth Correia. Joseph Hopkins Twichell grew up as the son of a deacon and tanner in Plantsville, Connecticut. He did what was expected from his father, Deacon Edward Twichell, and studied for the ministry before seeking greater adventure and becoming a chaplain for a Civil War regiment.
the lecture circuit, and during one of them met Joseph Hopkins Twichell, then and thereafter pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church and a man who was himself handsome, broad, straight and ample. Clemens took to Hartford and to Twichell from the start and tended, not surprisingly, to associate the
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal and professional papers documenting the life and activities of nineteenth and early twentieth century American pastor Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Correspondence consists of letters from Twichell, chiefly to his family, dating from 1855 to 1864, and incoming letters from Frederick Edwin ...
