Quarry Farm is located on East Hill overlooking Elmira, New York, and the Chemung River Valley. In 1869, Jervis Langdon purchased the property as a vacation home for his family.[2] When he died the following year, it was inherited by his eldest daughter, Susan Langdon Crane. It remained in the Langdon family until 1982, when it was donated to Elmira College as part of the founding of the Center For Mark Twain Studies.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was married to Susan Crane's younger sister, Olivia Langdon Clemens. During their courtship, Sam promised Livy that he would never allow her to feel the homesickness he felt, and from this promise emanated their annual summer pilgrimage to Quarry Farm.[3]
All three of the Clemens' daughters would be born at Quarry Farm,[4] and during the three decades the family regularly summered there, Twain composed many of his books and other literature, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[5] He wrote most of this work in an octagonal[5] study built expressly for him by the Cranes about 200 yards (180 m) from the main house in 1874.[2] That study was relocated to the campus of Elmira College in 1952.[6]
As part of the stipulation of the gift, Quarry Farm is not open to the public, but is reserved exclusively for the use of scholars researching and writing about Twain and his circle. At least 10–15 of these Quarry Farm Fellows spend anywhere from a week to a month living in the house, surrounded by an extensive library of Twain-related materials, with access to the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College, and assisted by the Center For Mark Twain Studies, which employs a full-time archivist and resident scholar.[7]
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ab"Twain's Home in Elmira". Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies. Archived from the original on April 16, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
^Seybold, Matt (2018-09-19). "150 Years of Mark Twain in Elmira: Dickens Holidays, The Gospel of Revolt, & The Quarry Farm Style". Center for Mark Twain Studies. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
^LeMaster, J. R.; Wilson, James D. (2013-05-13). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-88128-3.
^ abHal Bush (December 2010). "A Week at Quarry Farm". The Cresset, A review of literature, the arts, and public affairs, Valparaiso University. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
^"The Octagonal Study". Center for Mark Twain Studies. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
^"Quarry Farm Fellowships". Center for Mark Twain Studies. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
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