you can find a whole BUNCH of newspaper articles at:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900821h.html#TOC3_488

The Alta articles begin with Dec. 14th, 1866

you might also find articles and letters in THIS index:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=53


hope this helps!
:-)
-john



On Sep 30, 2011, at 11:46 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>> I'm looking for the letters published in the Daily Alta California  
>> from
>> Mark Twain's Quaker City excursion, the source of The Innocents  
>> Abroad. Are
>> they perhaps available in a single source?  Pardon my lack of  
>> researching.
>> I've only done a cursory Google on this and found some excerpts.   
>> Not being
>> in any kind of hurry I though I'd inquire here first.
>
> The University of Oklahoma Press published a book in 1958 called  
> "Traveling
> With the Innocents Abroad," which contains all 58 letters in the  
> series. I
> guess it's out of print by now, but you can probably find a copy on  
> ebay, or
> on Amazon through the "other sellers." And you might still be able  
> to find
> it at some libraries, especially university libraries. Besides  
> containing
> all the letters in one place, it's helpfully annotated, pointing out  
> which
> portions of each letter were dropped for the book and so on.
>
> -- Bob G.
>
> P.S. Two other excellent and related letter collections are "Mark  
> Twain's
> Letters from Hawaii" and "Mark Twain's Travels with Mr. Brown." A good
> proportion of the Hawaii letters made it into "Roughing It," but he  
> never
> used the letters from the other collection in any of his books, and  
> they're
> just as good as the others.