He had sunk approximately $300,000 in a three-ton piece of scrap metal called the Paige Compositor, which worked pretty well on the rare occasion it actually ran. At the time he wrote the note, Twain’s publishing firm was collapsing under the weight of the debt from investments in contraptions created by the various inventors he half-jokingly hoped to exterminate. Twain was responding to an author looking to publish a book of legal advice for inventors.
THE MILLION DOLLAR BANK NOTE MARK TWAIN HOW TO
If your books tell how to exterminate inventors send me nine editions. “I have, as you say, been interested in patents and patentees. Mark Twain was born 185 years ago, on November 30, 1835. as The Man with a Million), directed by Ronald Neame, with Gregory Peck as Henry Adams and George Devine as the restaurant proprietor. (An additional three volumes were published between 19.) Right: The same scene as depicted in The Million Pound Note (1954 released in the U.S.
John (1872–1957) for “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note” when it was reprinted in The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches, volume 21 of the 22-volume uniform edition of Mark Twain’s works issued in various formats during 1899–1900. From Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910 Left: “Change, please.” Illustration by American artist James Allen St.
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