"Twain, Mark" (Clemens, Samuel L.)

signed and inscribed on the mount ("Frau Baronin Schneider-Arno, with the kindest regards of S.L.Clemens, Jan.27/99“), and additionally signed and inscribed on the image ("It is not best that we use our morals week-days, it gets them out of repair for Sunday. Truly yours, Mark Twain"), three-quarter length, seated, 155 x 105 mm, on a cardboard mount (175 x 110mm)

A fine signed photograph of Mark Twain inscribed to the writer Josefa Schneider von Arno (1850 - 1909). Twain spent twenty months in Vienna from 1897-99, where he was lionised by the press and met many of the city's notable inhabitants, including Freud. He wrote a number of articles about his time there, and set his final (incomplete) novel The Mysterious Stranger in medieval Austria.