The Autobiography of Mark Twain · Character
Tom Nash
A childhood friend from Hannibal.
minor
Also known as Tom
First appearance: volume i early days
Tom Nash shows up with force in New York, Monday, February 12, 1906. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Childhood friend with whom Twain skated on the frozen Mississippi; later became deaf and met Twain again in 1902.
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See Tom Nash in volume i early days