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That's sad news. I don't know why, but I'd always thought he was a younger person. His book is a great legacy.
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------ Original Message ------ From: "Barbara Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: 6/24/2024 4:06:11 PM Subject: Philip Ashley Fanning
>I just ran across this obit for Philip Ashley Fanning, author of MARK TWAIN >AND ORION CLEMENS (2003) who died last month, May 6, 2024 -- > >https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/philip-fanning-obituary?id=55069474 > >Barb
It has been pointed out to me that in my reply to Scott Holmes about the Pearl Street AME Church in Hartford that I mentioned the Mark Twain Journal but said nothing about my talk posted to Youtube by the Mark Twain House & Museum. I thought I'd previously posted it, but could not find that I had. That talk was followed by a panel discussion that included the current pastor of that church, Rev. Samuel Blanks. Here's the link:
I have been adding the Day By Day indices to Twain’s Geography and have come across what looks like a problem. The entry for March 10, 1881 has Sam speaking at the “African Church”. In parenthesis is (A.M.E. Zion Church, Pearl St., Hfd.). The Wikipedia article for this church states that it “has since 1926 been the home to the city's oldest African-American congregation,”. This is much later than 1881. Digging around I found that there was another church in Hartford that looks more likely to me, the Talcott Street Congregational Church. I would appreciate any information on this. I
Tis no problem at all. Twain read a Joel Chandler Harris tar baby story at the Pearl Street AME Zion Church on that date. This church was listed in Geer's Hartford directory as the AME Zion Church at 269 Pearl Street in the 1870s. In 1926 it moved to its current location at 2051 Main Street into a building originally built in 1873-1874 for a white ME congregation. The pastor of this church, Rev. Samuel Blanks, was a participant in the panel discussion following my talk on George Griffin in Hartford last month. Griffin was Mark Twain's butler and a
Tomorrow is 157 years from the day Mark Twain set sail on the Quaker City for the trip that would form the basis of The Innocents Abroad. For those who may have been wondering about my posts over the last year on this list, I wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be releasing a new annotated edition of The Innocents Abroad in the near future. After a lot of research, and writing over 1200 footnotes, the book is almost ready to be published.
Will this edition include the deleted chapters and fragments that are in the Vassar College archives?
Barb
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 5:01 PM Philip Trauring <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tomorrow is 157 years from the day Mark Twain set sail on the Quaker City > for the trip that would form the basis of The Innocents Abroad. For those > who may have been wondering about my posts over the last year on this list, > I wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be releasing a new > annotated edition of The Innocents Abroad in the
In regard to the blog entry "Finding a Book that Doesn't Exist" -- Alan Gribben's reference book MARK TWAIN'S LITERARY RESOURCES states that in 1965 Dewey Ganzel first identified Charles Wyllys Elliott as the author of LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND and that Leon Dickinson also included this in his notes for the proposed Iowa-California edition of INNOCENTS ABROAD (Gribben, p. 232).
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 6:03 PM Philip Trauring <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tomorrow is 157 years from the day Mark Twain set sail on the Quaker City > for the trip that would form the basis of The Innocents Abroad. For those > who may have been wondering about my posts over the last year on this list, > I wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be releasing a new > annotated edition of The Innocents Abroad in the near future. After a lot > of research, and writing over
Enjoy! The first quote may not be attributable to Twain, but that’s not the point. Twain gets credit three times; Burns could have picked any other author three times and did not; I am sharing with all my classes!
It’s a Great speech, even if it didn’t feature Twain! Susan K. Harris
> On Jun 6, 2024, at 8:12 PM, John R. Pascal <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Enjoy! The first quote may not be attributable to Twain, but that’s not the point. Twain gets credit three times; Burns could have picked any other author three times and did not; I am sharing with all my classes! > > https://youtu.be/9n1OqPzIKH4?si=eHpVK_Ra2heJaHLV
I agree with Susan. And a much needed speech for grads.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 8:20 PM Harris, Susan Kumin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It’s a > Great speech, even if it didn’t feature Twain! > Susan K. Harris > > > > On Jun 6, 2024, at 8:12 PM, John R. Pascal < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Enjoy! The first quote may not be attributable to Twain, but that’s > not the point. Twain gets credit three times; Burns could have picked any > other author three times and did not; I am sharing with all my
_Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910_. By Leslie Diane Myrick and Gary Scharnhorst. University of Alabama Press, 2024. Pp. 119. Hardcover: $110.00, ISBN 9780817321727. Paperback: $29.95, ISBN 9780817361044.
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Thanks, Barbara, for noting the death of Philip Fanning. He lived in, and loved, San Francisco.
I knew him there when he set out to write a novel about two mismatched brothers, Orion and Sam. Gradually he came to realize that the facts in literary documents and historical records were so complete and compelling that a dual biography was warranted; the story needed no fictional treatment.
