Billings, Mrs. David, ALS to, from Olivia Langdon Clemens and SLC, [Aug. 24, 1888]. - NYPL Digital Collections
Mark Twain - Thirty-four-year-old Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon Clemens on this day in 1870. The well-off Langdons were initially suspicious of the struggling Missouri boy, and so was their daughter: "I'll
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