And they love stories that are the stuff of Twain: kids getting in trouble, kids being sneaky, kids in danger, knights, tricks, grownups who do stupid things, those rare acts of true bravery and courage that make you believe human beings might be worth something, after all. It’s to learn to live a good life.Īnd so it is years later, and I have my own children now, and they are almost the age that I was when we spent that first summer at Quarry Farm. You wake up and really do wonder where it all went-which is why one of the great luxuries afforded Pomona students is the freedom to sit down on Marston Quad or in a dorm room and to talk with friends, or to think for yourself, about where you want to be and, more importantly, with whom you want to be there. I tell my students, sometimes, that grown-ups are not lying to you when they talk about how fast life goes. I got my dream job, teaching at Pomona College, a few months later. The more pressing concern was just getting through the day Dad, a big-hearted, big-hugging, big-thinking man, left an absence that felt even bigger than his presence. His friends and colleagues mourned the lost book, but of course the manuscript was not the main thing. My father dropped dead 12 years ago, on a sunny Tuesday morning, leaving behind notes on the manuscript about Mark Twain that he’d been working on for decades. Susan McWilliams in her office with her father’s manuscript and files And he read us Twain, of course: the stories and the novels and the bull’s-eye critique of James Fenimore Cooper that always made me laugh, even though I’d never read anything by James Fenimore Cooper.
During the days, my sister and I romped around the grounds while Dad held seminars.Īt night, just as Twain had done for his own daughters, Dad made up stories for us based on the pictures on the fireplace tiles in the parlor. Quarry Farm hasn’t changed much since my last visit, although most of my life has.Īs a kid, I spent a couple of summers at Mark Twain’s Quarry Farm-the house in Elmira, New York, where Twain lived and wrote books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Life on the Mississippi, and Tom Sawyer-because my father, Wilson Carey McWilliams, was a great teacher of Twain’s work and a scholar-in-residence here. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.I HAVE A PICTURE of myself as a child, sitting on the very porch where, 30 years later, I am writing these words. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Type of Resource Text Still image Identifiers NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12455533 MSS Unit ID: 2557 RLIN/OCLC: NYPW89-A695 Digital Scriptorium 1.0 ID: NYPL MA 001 Photo Order: 60774 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d6603770-c5ca-012f-89b7-58d385a7bc34 Rights Statement The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. XII? Content: There is an incorrect foliation in ink and another in pencil in the upper right description follows underlined pencil foliation in upper right.
Strips of another ms, sewn into this manuscript, s. X older scholarship suggested Reichenau or Westphalia. Biographical/historical: Recent scholarship proposes Corvey, s. Content: Portraits of Evangelists and Christ, Evangelists' symbols.
Gospel Lectionary Dates / Origin Date Created: 900 - 999 (Approximate) Place: Ottonian Library locations Manuscripts and Archives Division Shelf locator: MssCol 2557 Shelf locator: MA 1 Topics Lectionaries Mark, Saint Genres Manuscripts Illuminations Notes Content: 1 hand. Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection TitleFull-page portrait of Mark in gold frame on purple background,
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