Is it true that this “popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers,” as Thomas V. Quirk, a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described him in an Encyclopedia Britannica entry, appreciated diseases and epidemics and -- goodness! -- liked the prince of darkness?
As it turned out, aside from writing, Mark Twain - the pen name of novelist, travel writer, and humorist Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910), cherished cats. In fact, he once said, “There is nothing so valuable in a home as a baby-- and no young home is complete without a baby--a baby and a cat.”
He added: “Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential, but the Clemens tribe are not of these.”
These words appeared in a letter written in 1884, as quoted from the website of the University of California’s Berkeley Library. …show more content…
If fellow cat lover Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) found felines to be more sympathetic than humans, Twain placed them on a higher pedestal.
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat,’’ the witty writer once said, according to an article by Smithsonian Magazine.
American author Albert Bigelow Paine (1861- 1937) also related, “Mark Twain had a special fondness for cats.” He added, “As a boy he always owned one and it generally had a seat beside him at the table.”
When it comes to cats, Twain would be like a piece of metal and these creatures like a huge magnet.
In Mark Twain for Cat Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Feline Friends (2016), edited by Mark Dawidziak, he was quoted as saying, “I simply can’t resist a cat, particularly a purring
As it turned out, aside from writing, Mark Twain - the pen name of novelist, travel writer, and humorist Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910), cherished cats. In fact, he once said, “There is nothing so valuable in a home as a baby-- and no young home is complete without a baby--a baby and a cat.”
He added: “Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential, but the Clemens tribe are not of these.”
These words appeared in a letter written in 1884, as quoted from the website of the University of California’s Berkeley Library. …show more content…
If fellow cat lover Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) found felines to be more sympathetic than humans, Twain placed them on a higher pedestal.
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat,’’ the witty writer once said, according to an article by Smithsonian Magazine.
American author Albert Bigelow Paine (1861- 1937) also related, “Mark Twain had a special fondness for cats.” He added, “As a boy he always owned one and it generally had a seat beside him at the table.”
When it comes to cats, Twain would be like a piece of metal and these creatures like a huge magnet.
In Mark Twain for Cat Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Feline Friends (2016), edited by Mark Dawidziak, he was quoted as saying, “I simply can’t resist a cat, particularly a purring