Thanks Barb-  I can now add to my public lecture series a day by day local weather and corruption report to notable Twain-centered events and articles. My new library series “A Brutally Brief Biography of Mark Twain” begins October 1 at the
 Venice Public Library in Venice Florida, and the reported Redding temperature for April 21 was 50*. 

On another note, Mark Twain Education Society of Sarasota and Manatee Counties
Is seeking new plays about Twain’s Life, times and/or characters. If anyone in this group has or knows of an unproduced work that might be a fit, we want to consider it for development and production.

Please contact me directly for details.

Alan Kitty,
Executive Director
Mark Twain Education Society
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> On Sep 20, 2019, at 10:36 AM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>>