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L T Oggel <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 9 Sep 2014 08:46:38 -0400
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Thanks. Pete.

Welland's good argument in the *NYPL* article (1965) that Pete refers to is
contained in Welland's later book, *Mark Twain in England* (1978),
published by...... you guessed it, Chatto (which had become Chatto and
Windus by then).

Terry

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Peter Messent <
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> Dennis Welland's very careful essay on the differences between the two
> versions of the text was published in 'Mark Twain's Last Travel Book,'
> Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 69:1 (January 1965) pp. 31-48. I
> think I am right in saying that there is no evidence that Twain was aware
> that there were two different versions of the text. If I remember rightly,
> there's more on the British colonial material (South Africa especially) in
> the Chatto version. That is, though, a big if! Best. Pete This message and
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