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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
d revisited his home, returning by way of Panama and New York. In May, 1867, he published his first book, The celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and other sketches, and lectured in Cooper Institute. Then on 8 June he sailed on the, Quaker City for a five months excursion through the Mediterranean to the Holy Land, first reported in letters to The Alta-California and the New York Tribune, and immortalized by his book Innocents abroad. On 2 February, 1870, he married his most sympathetic reader and severest censor, Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York, a sister of one of the Quaker City pilgrims who had shown him her photograph in the Bay of Smyrna. After a brief unprofitable attempt to edit a newspaper in Buffalo, he moved in 1871 to Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1874 built there the home in which he lived for the next seventeen years. He formed a close association with his neighbour Charles Dudley Warner See Book III, Chap. XIII.; was taken under the editorial wing