It turns out that the printed book I was hoping
for already exists, and I just received my copy
from Amazon.com. Traveling with the /Innocents
Abroad: Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe
and the Holy Land. / Edited by U of Texas Prof.
Daniel Morley McKeithan. U of Oklahoma Press (2012
reissue). Originally published in 1958.
https://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Innocents-Abroad-Original-Reports/dp/0806143320/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=traveling+with+twain&qid=1569323763&s=books&sr=1-1
Looking forward to reading this!
-Steve Hoffman, Takoma Park MD
On 9/21/2019 11:36 AM, Scott Holmes wrote:
> If all you want is copies of the original letters, I have an entry on
> my website that has attachments to pdfs of all the letters including
> the Tribune and Herald.
>
> https://bscottholmes.com/twain/innocents/letters
>
> On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 07:31 -0400, Steve Hoffman wrote:
>> 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]
>>> com>
>>> 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 <schmidtbrb@gmai
>>>> l.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> See _Mark Twain’s Travels with Mr. Brown_, edited by Franklin
>>>>> Walker and
>>>>> G. Ezra’s Dane (1940).
>>>>>
>>>>> Barb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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