Loren-
 
You will find an account of this interview in Gary Scharnhorst's excellent resource, MARK TWAIN: THE COMPLETE INTERVIEWS, p. 186.
 
Bon voyage,
Sandra Uetz

--- On Sat, 10/1/11, Loren Ghiglione <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


From: Loren Ghiglione <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Did this Seattle interview occur?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011, 10:26 PM


Dear Forum members:
Two students and I are two weeks into a three-month, 12,000-mile drive arou=
nd the United States as part of a book, web and documentary project called =
"Traveling with Twain in Search of America's Identity" (our website is trav=
elingwithtwain.org).  The trip will end in Seattle in December.  William H.=
Hadley, a family friend, provided me with a clipping from a Frank Lynch co=
lumn in the January 3, 1957, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  The column is tit=
led "The Cub Reporter and Mark Twain Unsuited."  The column includes an acc=
ount by Ray O. Hadley, William Hadley's father, of interviewing Twain, who =
was in the area for an appearance in 1895 at Lighthouse Hall, later "the up=
per stories of the Bellingham First National Bank Building."  Hadley was a =
cub reporter for The Blade, a local tri-weekly.  So the story goes, Hadley =
went to the Fairhaven Hotel to interview Twain, who was walking around in l=
ong, trap-door underwear.   Hadley asked Twain, "And what do you think of o=
ur Northwest, sir?"  Having experienced a period of fires, Twain had not se=
en sun, sky or tree tops.  He said, "My God, I haven't seen any of it but t=
he ground."  Hadley raced back to The Blade to write a short article under =
the headline: "Mark Twain, Unsuited.  Interviewed by Blade Reporter."  Lync=
h ends his column about Roy Hadley: "Noting as wonderful ever happened to h=
im again."  Is there a way to determine whether such an article ever ran in=
the tri-weekly Blade (by the way, it would not have had a byline)?  I have=
not been able to locate copies of The Blade.    Best, Loren Ghiglione

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Holmes
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Traveling with the Innocents Abroad

Thank you all for this lead.  I've found copies available on Amazon, some f=
or rather exorbitant amounts and others for less than $20.  I've ordered a =
copy.  Meanwhile I did find a source of pdfs at California Digital Newspape=
r Collection, cdnc.ucr.edu The pdfs are readable but the scanned text is al=
most useless.  If you wish text copies you'd probably save time by just typ=
ing the letters out rather than trying to correct the scanned text.

My avatar has been doing readings from The Innocents Abroad in Second Life,=
the virtual on-line world.  I created a web page from the first chapter th=
at includes a link to the YouTube recording as well as an image of the Lett=
er form Mark Twain published August 18, 1867, written June 6, 1867, the day=
before the Quaker City left the dock.

http://bsh.bscottholmes.com/twain/innocents/chapter1