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JANE LAMPTON CLEMENS - (Mark Twain's mother)

The greatest difference which I find between her and the rest of the people whom I have known, is this, and it is a remarkable one: those others felt a strong interest in a few things, whereas to the very day of her death she felt a strong interest in the whole world and everything and everybody in it.
- "Jane Lampton Clemens"
Jane Clemens
"The river journey filled Jane Clemens with wonder and delight."
Illustration from St. Nicholas, Feb. 1916
Color tinted by Kent Rasmussen © 2004

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