European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Jane Anderson United press International seven servants were at his Beck and Call for 17 years in his mansion before Mark Twain discovered As Huck finn told Tom looky being Rich aint what its cracked up to Twain earned a Fortune from Book but he spent a year in living expenses made several disastrous financial investments and left Hartford debt Ridden in 1891 to live in biographies published by the Mark Twain memorial in Hartford and by the Mark Twain society in indicate trains years in Hartford were among the happiest and busiest of his which ended in a Suc cession of personal More than people each year now tour the Man Sion Twain built for in 1874 in the Nook farm Sec Tion of then a Refuge for writers such As neighbor Harriet Beecher author of Uncle Toms Twain grew up in and it was there people knew him As Young Sam a free spirit whose father died when Sam was 12 and whose encounter with formal education ended at an Early he was a Grade school he then worked for his Brothers newspaper in the Mississippi River Hamlet and later took As his pen name the Mark used on local riverboats to make depth it Means two fathoms Twain had already been a Mississippi private Secretary to a Nevada lieutenant governor and a newspaper reporter when he put Down roots in a thousand Miles East of his i never Law any place where morality and huckleberries nourished As they do he Laid after his tint visit to Hartford in 1861 to see us producer of Bis innocents abroad and roughing he is quoted in the Mark train in As having written of All the Beautiful towns it has been my Fortune to see this is the he admired Hartford stately Man formal lawns and and the huge Forest Trees that cast a Shadow like a i have had a Tiptop time he wrote to his future Olivia Langdon of puritans Are mighty straight laced and they wont let me smoke in the but the almighty dont make any better Twain and his wife raised their three daughters Clara and Jean in the gabled Brick House where Twain fussed and cracked socialized sex played billiards and complained he  although Twain wrote Many of his Best known including the of Tom the adventures of Huckleberry finn and a Conne Licul Yankee in King Arthurs court during his years in he did most of his writing during Summers in i spend nine months of the year at Twain once told Rudyard i Long ago satisfied myself there is no Hope of doing much work in those nine people come at All hours about everything in the the Hartford mansion was As spacious As the View from the raft Huck finn took Down the and it embodied hucks philosophy that its the Little things that smooths Peoples roads the seven servants including the Mack Butler who came to Wash windows one Day and stayed 18 years presided Over u 18 fire and a Gas lit Marble floored foyer with a sweeping staircase to the third the designed by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter with balconies and porches like decks on a missis Sippi had running Central a burglar alarm and Stencilling by Louis Comfort one of the first telephones in America was installed in a foyer Twain invited such As Atlantic monthly editor William Dean to visit for weeks at a other guests included writer Bret Harte and president Ulysses he gave frequent dinner serving roast beef or Sherry and Nesselrode pudding or ice and Creme de the women sipped Coffee in the living room while the men stayed at the table for Twain loved new England Winter storms and had a window built above the dining room fireplace so he could sit at the head of the table and watch the falling snowflakes meet the rising the ice storm is an be a dancing and glancing world of sapphires the most intoxicating vision of fire and and in tolerable and unimaginable splendor that Ever any Eye has rested upon in this or will Ever rest upon out Side of the time called the House one of the oddest looking buildings in the state Ever designed for a dwell if not in the whole to it was the Symbol of his self made and he loved the place years he said to our House was not Unsen Tient matter it had a and a and eyes to see us with it was of and we were in its Confidence and lived in its Grace and the peace of its Benediction we could not enter it in after us died in the tint floor bedroom of spinal meningitis in in at the age of trains Wile refused to enter the Home but it made the House dearer to me it was a holy Hartford mansion in which i Pena Dink drawing of i by artist Edward Windsor Page 12 the stars and stripes