Thursday, April 28, 2016

Samuel Langhorne Clemens / Mark Twain: Are his diverse signatures typical of a person with a famous pseudonym or indicative of multiple personality?

Here is a link to twenty of his handwritten letters:

He signed his name in seventeen ways:
 1. Marcus
 2. Mark
 3. Mark Twain
 4. Mark Twain / (SL. Clemens)
 5. Mark Twain / Samuel Langhorne Clemens
 6. Sam
 7. Clemens
 8. SLC
 9. S. L. Clemens
10. Saml. L. C.
11. Saml. L. Clemens
12. Saml. L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”)
13. Saml. L. Clemens (alias) Mark Twain
14. S. L. Clemens Mark Twain
15. Samuel
16. Samuel L. Clemens
17. Y

In multiple personality, handwriting and signatures might vary from one personality to another. Two personalities might use different spellings of the same name. I don’t see anything definitive in the above, but perhaps you are a graphologist or have known famous people with pseudonyms, and are in a better position to judge.

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