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• 10:20, 24 October 2025 KB talk contribs created page Anecdotes/Pen Name (Created page with "Samuel L. Clemens started using the pen name "Mark Twain" in 1863 (see Rasmussen 774). Its first known appearance was in a letter published in the ''Virginia City Territorial Enterprise'' on 3 Feb. 1863 (see Rasmussen 774). The names' nautical origin (literally meaning "two marks" or 12 feet in measuring the depth of a river) were repeatedly explained to the general public in newspaper reports - sometimes in the form of a short article merely professing to present an in...")