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Situated just outside Elmira, N.Y., Quarry Farm was the permanent home of [[Olivia Langdon Clemens]]’ sister, Susan Langdon Crane, and her husband Theodore. The Clemens family spent most summers between 1871 and 1889 at Quarry Farm and the Cranes had a private study built for Clemens, the “octagonal study”, where he worked on many of his stories (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:849-850]).

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[[Clara Langdon Clemens]] wrote about the Quarry Farm summers in ''My Father, Mark Twain'' and introduces the location as follows:

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The major part of Father’s work was accomplished in the summer, which we spent with my mother’s sister, Mrs. Theodore Crane. She lived on the top of a long hill overlooking Elmira, New York. The place was called Quarry Farm, and was a heavenly spot. On a sunny day one could see the Chemung River sparkling far below as it wound its way through the town of Elmira, nestled cozily between the hills surrounding it. […]

The house […] was simple but very comfortable, with enough rooms to accommodate our family. Susy and I slept together, my younger sister, Jean, roomed with the nurse, and Father and Mother occupied a third room. Mrs. Crane often referred to her home as “Do as you Please Hall,” for she wished everyone to feel complete liberty to act and think as he would.

([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/G8RI9G6M 59])
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Quarry Farm was donated to the Elmira College in 1983 and is now used by the Center for Mark Twain Studies. A virtual tour of the location is available on the [https://tours.smalltown360.com/clients/644/panotour2/ Center for Mark Twain Studies] website.


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