I would urge caution. It's quite possible posters were made with this
wording, but I don't know of any that survive. Fatout says "huge posters"
were plastered all over, but cites no source. That isn't to say he didn't
have a source, but I should like to know it. Paine merely says
"advertisements" and what Paine cites appeared in a newspaper, which could
also have appeared as a handbill. I only make this distinction because
posters were not cheap to produce and print, unlike handbills which are much
less trouble and cost far less. Without a source or a surviving example, you
could give birth to a bibliographical ghost. A small poster published in San
Francisco in 1868 does have jokey wording, but not what Paine or Fatout
cite. There are still other posters and handbills known, but none that I've
seen with that wording. I'd love to know of one.
Kevin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Clay Shannon
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 8:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Has anyone got the text for the Twain lecture poster?
Thanks, Barb.
As serendipity would have it, I found it a few minutes later while reading =
Fatout's "Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit." It is on page 36; it is a pro=
se description of what was on the poster, so it is not verbatim, but gives =
more info than I had prior, to wit:
A SPLENDID ORCHESTRA=C2=A0is in town, but has not been engaged
A DEN OF FEROCIOUS WILD BEASTS=C2=A0are on exhibit in the next block
A GRAND TORCHLIGHT PROCESSIONMay Be Expected=C2=A0in fact, the public are p=
rivileged to expect whatever they choose
=C2=A0
- B. Clay Shannon
From: Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: Has anyone got the text for the Twain lecture poster?
=20
Albert Bigelow Paine's MARK TWAIN: A BIOGRAPHY, p. 292 of the 4-volume
edition (Chapter 54 titled "The Lecturer") features the text and layout of
the poster, although not a reproduction of the poster itself.=C2=A0 The com=
plete
text of Paine's BIOGRAPHY is online at several sites.
Barb
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