Letters (32) from Albert Bigelow Paine, New York, West Redding, Norwalk, Conn., Jacksonville and Venice, Fl., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1931-1935 : autograph and typed manuscripts signed.

Giving advice about his research on Mark Twain, discussing his own work on the Twain diaries, and noting that the Trustees and Executors of Twain's estate have probably burned some unpublished manuscripts in which "his imagination had run away with him and led him into extravagance and burlesque which would only annoy, and never amuse, the reader," saying that "None of it was objectionable on account of its morals, or lack of them. It simply was poor writing; to allow any of it to stray into print would have been disloyalty on the part of those into whose hands it had been confided by M. T. himself"; explaining how to obtain permission to publish Twain's writings, and mentioning a book [Mark Twain, the Letter Writer, 1932] by Cyril Clemens, "an irresponsible pirate ... a remote cousin and an ever present nuisance"; discussing his work on Life and Lillian Gish (1932); complimenting Wagenknecht's Jenny Lind (1931) but denying that she was plain and unattractive; mentioning various occasions when he has seen Lillian Gish, in person or on the stage; and commenting on Wagenknecht's Mark Twain, the man and his work (1935).