Jim,

Thank you. Actually, I recently discovered that the State Historical Society of Missouri had the Saint Louis Weekly Evening News, and someone there is checking the files for me.

Ed

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Subject: Re: Research Query: Saint Louis Daily Evening News or Saint Louis Weekly Evening News for October-November 1854

According to WorldCat the State Historical Society of Missouri holds
only one issue of the Saint Louis Daily Evening News--September 28, 1854
(OCLC number 10493691).  The Saint Louis Weekly News, however, is
available in microfilm at the same institution beginning with July 20,
1854 straight through January 12, 1855 (OCLC number 20842221).  Both
titles were published by Charles G. Ramsay, so I think this is the
correct title for the weekly edition, not "Saint Louis Weekly Evening
News."

Good luck with your research!

Jim Edstrom



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Research Query:


I'm currently completing my research for an essay, tentatively titled
"Two
Views of Niagara: Doesticks and Mark Twain," in which I'm exploring
connections between Mortimer Thomson's (Doesticks) 1854 comic missive,
"Doesticks on a Bender" (some reprinted with the alternative title
"Niagara
Falls: Doesticks on a Bender") published in 1854. Mark Twain was
familiar
with Doesticks and with this work, and as Fred Lorch noted in a 1949
note in
American Literature, Clemens, when he returned to St. Louis and set type
for
the St. Louis Evening News in August of 1854, may have seen the six
Doesticks letters reprinted in the Evening News between October 5 and
November 29, 1854 (one of which may have "Doesticks on a Bender").

I am seeking to find possible microfilm for either the Saint Louis Daily
Evening News or Saint Louis Weekly Evening News for October-November
1854
period noted above. If anyone happens to know where I can find these
materials, please let me know.

Ed Piacentino

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