Thank you.  I would think that a printed volume 
that contained the original Innocents Abroad 
material as it appeared in
the Alta would be of interest to Twain scholars.  
The volume could include
an essay about the process by which Twain, with 
Bret Harte and Olivia
Langdon's assistance, toned down the text!

--Steve Hoffman, Takoma Park MD

On 9/20/2019 10:36 AM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Absolutely correct.  _Travels with Mr. Brown_ are letters before the
> cruise.  If you want to read the original appearance of the letters, see
> the historical newspaper databases.  The ALTA is now online and searchable
> at elephind.com. I just ran the search at elephind and got 64 hits for Mark
> Twain Holy Land. That database is free.
>
> Barb
>
> On Friday, September 20, 2019, Steve Hoffman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for bringing that book to my attention.  Is this Kirkus Review
>> not accurate?  Kirkus says:  "It consists of 26 letters written for a
>> California newspaper in the first half of 1867 -- preceding his visit to
>> Europe which is familiar to all in Innocents Abroad. The most interesting
>> part, perhaps, is that section that gives a picture of life in New York in
>> those days, -- of places to live, travel round and about New York, of
>> Barnum, of weather, of fashions, of ministers and their congregations"
>>
>> Sounds very interesting and worthy of my paying the $ it commands to add
>> it to my Twain library.  However, it doesn't seem to contain the articles
>> about the cruise and European/Middle Eastern travels that he later revised
>> for Innocents Abroad.  What I'd like to do is read the original
>> articles/letters that later appeared in edited (some might say
>> self-censored!) form, before Bret Harte and Olivia Langdon had their say,
>> resulting in a toned-down (less "offensive") work.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Steve Hoffman, Takoma Park MD
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:24 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> See _Mark Twain’s Travels with Mr. Brown_, edited by Franklin Walker and
>>> G. Ezra’s Dane (1940).
>>>
>>> Barb
>>>
>>>
>>>