1.
Mark Twain is the author of Huckleberry Finn.
Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel.
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel L. Clemens.
He lived in Hartford for several years.
- Samuel L. Clemens, who was also known as Mark Twain and lived in Hartford for several years, was the author of a classic American novel called Huckleberry Finn.
2.
Mark Twain's house was very elaborate and elegant.
It was on Farmington Avenue.
It was in an area called Nook Farm.
He was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mark Twain was living in an elaborate and elegant house which was located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm with Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, as his neighbor.
3.
Mark Twain's home has a large side porch.
Windows and a balcony overlook the porch.
Today, people say the windows and balcony remind them of a steamboat.
In his youth, Twain piloted steamboats on the Mississippi.
- Twain's home having windows and a balcony that overlook a large side porch, which was inspired by Twain's childhood experience of piloting boats on the Mississippi, presently reminded people of steamboats.
4.
Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone.
The telephone was first used commercially in nearby New Haven.
There was practically no one to talk to.
Mark Twain never really liked this newfangled gadget.
- Even though Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven, he never really liked his newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.
5.
Mark Twain loved industrial inventions.
He lost a fortune investing in them.
One of these inventions was the elaborate Paige typesetter.
Unfortunately for Twain, this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype.
The Linotype machine was much simpler and less expensive.
- Because of Mark Twain's love for industrial inventions, he lost a fortune investing in them - like the elaborate Paige typesetter which was developed at the same time as the Linotype machine and which was much simpler and less expensive.
6.
Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died in the Hartford home.
She died of spinal meningitis.
Twain never felt the same about the house again.
He soon left the house and Hartford.
He returned only once.
He came back for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
- When Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died in the Hartford home caused by spinal meningitis, it caused him to leave the house and Hartford because he never felt the same about the house again and returned only once to Hartford during the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
