The Washington Post

Mark Twain’s typewriter — 'full of defects, devilish ones’ — nearly drove him bonkers

This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain’s desire (then resentment): the typewriter. Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine," as he called it, sometime in ...
The Washington Post

Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter

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Columbus Dispatch

Twain's typewriter nearly drove him bonkers

This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain's desire, and then resentment: the typewriter. Twain first laid eyes on a "newfangled typing machine," as he called it, sometime in ...
Ventura County Star

Woodburn: Devilish and sweet typewriter tales

Although it will go widely unrecognized, today is an important date in history for it was on June 23, 1868, that Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for the typewriter. Three years later, Mark ...