Thanks all; one can (almost) always count on the Twain forum.

-- B. Clay Shannon
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> On Jan 18, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Benjamin Griffin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Not to be missed, which it might be because of its rather unspecific title,
> is the book *Facts: By A Woman*, about which see
> http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/marketin/facts2.html
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>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:22 AM Alan Kitty <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I will see your wager and raise the pot that you are right about those
>> interesting stories. I’m not only the Jim Smiley of Book Agents, I was
>> among the last of them.
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>> My door to door experience took the form of the Encyclopedia Americana. I
>> know from accounts from Twain’s time that the sample cases, sample books,
>> and I’m guessing much of the sales pitch remained essentially unchanged
>> from his time to mine.
>> Alan
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>> Alan Kitty, Executive Director
>> Mark Twain Education Society
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>> “Laughter can shatter the most colossal humbug; blow it to rags and atoms
>> with a single blast.”
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On Jan 18, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Did any book agent write up his experiences - what it was like
>> traveling around the country, from house to house and farm to farm, selling
>> people advance copies of Twain's next book? I would wager a healthy sum
>> that there were some quite interesting stories to tell.
>>> - B. Clay Shannon
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