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From the Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) Famous Soliloquy at the Tomb of Adam in the Holy Land:
The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled in recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, & I gave way to tumultuous emotion
One word here is at variance with the published version, viz., Clemens refers to “the grave of Adam” whereas the actual text reads “tomb of Adam.”
The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled in recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, & I gave way to tumultuous emotion
One word here is at variance with the published version, viz., Clemens refers to “the grave of Adam” whereas the actual text reads “tomb of Adam.”
Autograph Quotation Signed (twice: as “Samuel L. Clemens” and “Mark Twain”); 1 page, octavo, Buffalo, November (no day), 1870.
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Buffalo, Nov. 1870.
The passage is as follows:
(From Soliloquy at Tomb of Adam.}
"The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled its recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, & I gave way to tumultuous emotion."
It is on page 567 -- well toward the end of the book.
Yrs Truly
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
(MARK TWAIN.)
The passage is as follows:
(From Soliloquy at Tomb of Adam.}
"The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled its recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, & I gave way to tumultuous emotion."
It is on page 567 -- well toward the end of the book.
Yrs Truly
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
(MARK TWAIN.)
