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Having just come across the Day By Day entry for March 8, 1890 with its reference to Joseph Jones’ article, “Mark Twain’s Yankee and Australian Nationalism” (American Literature, May 1968), I began to wonder how much Connecticut Yankee influenced his reception in Australia in 1895. Miriam Shillingsburg, in the preface to her book “At Home Abroad” writes: “The social significance of Twain’s visit is indicated by the welcome he received from the highest classes of society”. Jones writes in his article, comparing the reception of Connecticut Yankee in England to that of Australia: “In Australia, contrariwise, scarcely anything that Mark
In an article published on June 5, 1910 in the Brooklyn Eagle, interviewing Stephen Griswold, they publish a list of passengers it says came from a newspaper clipping, but doesn't identify the origin of the clipping. The passenger list doesn't match either of the three lists I mentioned earlier. It also includes the following list of Officers:
I was looking at Twain’s letters in 1869, while he was correcting the proofs for The Innocents Abroad, and found an interesting paragraph about spelling in the book. In a letter to the publisher, Elisha Bliss, Jr. on April 20, 1869, he wrote:
I wish you would have my revises revised again & look over them yourself & see that my marks have been corrected. A proof-reader who persists in making two words ‸(& sometimes even compound words)‸ of “anywhere” and “everything;” & who spells [ villainy ] “villiany” & “[ liquifies ] ” &c, &c, is not three