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• 1 2025-01-17T02:25:00-08:00 Elmira, N.Y. | Quarry Farm 8 plain 2025-01-27T01:49:01-08:00 -annotation -sub -location Situated just outside Elmira, N.Y., Quarry Farm was the permanent home of Olivia 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 Rasmussen et al. 2:849-850).
  Clara Clemens wrote about the Quarry Farm summers in My Father, Mark Twain and introduces the location as follows:

  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.
  (59)

  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 Center for Mark Twain Studies website.