Here's a little nugget for you. The great inventor Thomas Edison visited the home of Mark Twain in 1909, and captured footage of "the father of American literature" (says Faulkner) walking around his estate and playing cards with his daughters, Clara and Jean. The film is silent and deteriorated. But it's apparently the only known footage of the author who gave us Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Twain would die the next year.

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