An ancestor (Jeoffrey Clement), was ambassador to Spain under Charles I., married a Spanish wife & introduced a strain of Spanish blood into the Clemens stock which shows up now & then in a descendant yet. (Clara is an instance.)
- "Samuel Langhorne Clemens" autobiographical manuscript written in March 1899, privately printed in 1916. Also published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (University of California Press, 2015)

Clara is like all the artist breed, & like myself -- foggy in matters pecuniary.
- "The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript." published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (University of California Press, 2015)

A very dear little ashcat, but has claws.
- Letter to Joseph Twichell, 24 June 1905