Does this help (from Journalism in Tenn): "I was told by the physician that a Southern climate would improve my health, and so I went down to Tennessee, and got a berth on the Morning Glory and Johnson County War-Whoop as associate editor. When I went on duty I found the chief editor sitting tilted back in a three-legged chair with his feet on a pine table. There was another pine table in the room and another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under newspapers and scraps and sheets of manuscript. There was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge...."

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Subject: Re: "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" for the stage?

Joe,I'm not aware of Twain making any attempt to adapt "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" for the stage. However, in "The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain's Lecture Tours," Lorch lists "Why I Resigned the Editorship" as a story he used during the tour with Cable. But Lorch doesn't give any indication of what story this was, and Fatout doesn't mention it at all in his books. I've never seen a source on this, so I'd be curious to know if anyone else has. The title listed for the tour with Cable made me wonder if was one of two pieces in "Sketches, New and Old": "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" or "Journalism in Tennessee." Anyone know for sure?
I will add, though, that I adapted this sketch (for five people) and performed it with our theater company in 2005 -- me playing Twain, of course. It never missed. It went like gangbusters every time. A Twainian friend wondered if the language would make it tough for audiences, but it never failed to fetch the house.

    On Sunday, February 7, 2021, 5:08:51 PM EST, Joseph Csicsila <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 Happy Super Bowl Sunday,

Anyone aware of Twain attempting to adapt "How I Edited an Agricultural
Paper" for the stage?

Thanks,
Joe

P.S. Hiroko Bush is reporting that Hal's condition is stable. He's still in
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