Mark Twain: A Life Page 108
by Ron Powers
The Reverand Joseph “Joe” Twichell, shown at left in 1905, was perhaps second only to Howells as an intimate friend of Clemens. Twichell was the sort of “muscular” Christian Clemens admired—but not muscular enough to haul Sam back to the faith.
The final photograph of Mark Twain, made on April 14, 1910, as he was aided in disembarking at New York Harbor after a hiatus in Bermuda. He died nine days later, in the Stormfield house, at seventy-four, lying in the carved-oak bed.