{"product_id":"2940013415898","title":"MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS VOLUMES I-VI, COMPLETE","description":"MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. EARLY LETTERS, 1853. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     We have no record of Mark Twain's earliest letters.  Very likely\u003cbr\u003e     they were soiled pencil notes, written to some school sweetheart\u003cbr\u003e     --to \"Becky Thatcher,\" perhaps--and tossed across at lucky moments,\u003cbr\u003e     or otherwise, with happy or disastrous results.  One of those\u003cbr\u003e     smudgy, much-folded school notes of the Tom Sawyer period would be\u003cbr\u003e     priceless to-day, and somewhere among forgotten keepsakes it may\u003cbr\u003e     exist, but we shall not be likely to find it.  No letter of his\u003cbr\u003e     boyhood, no scrap of his earlier writing, has come to light except\u003cbr\u003e     his penciled name, SAM CLEMENS, laboriously inscribed on the inside\u003cbr\u003e     of a small worn purse that once held his meager, almost non-existent\u003cbr\u003e     wealth.  He became a printer's apprentice at twelve, but as he\u003cbr\u003e     received no salary, the need of a purse could not have been urgent.\u003cbr\u003e     He must have carried it pretty steadily, however, from its\u003cbr\u003e     appearance--as a kind of symbol of hope, maybe--a token of that\u003cbr\u003e     Sellers-optimism which dominated his early life, and was never\u003cbr\u003e     entirely subdued.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082701947120,"sku":"2940013415898","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013415898_p0.jpg?v=1763581201","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013415898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}