Suffering Mark Twain asked to be killed, letter shows

Chicago Sun-Times | November 18, 1988 | Copyright

An ailing Mark Twain pleaded with his business manager to kill him aboard a steamship as he traveled home to die, a long-lost letter shows. Twain was in intense pain from a chronic heart ailment.

The manager, Albert Bigelow Paine, traveled with Twain on the S.S. Oceana to New York from Twain's holiday home in Bermuda in April, 1910, and described the incident in the letter to William Allen, U.S. vice consul in Bermuda and host to Twain during his three-month stay on the island. Twain died later that month at his Stormfield estate in West Redding, Conn.

The letter was among the Twain ...

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