TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Sender:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 18 Jan 2020 12:59:22 -0600
Reply-To:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
quoted-printable
Subject:
Re: Twain's Book agents
From:
Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
In-Reply-To:
<[log in to unmask]>
MIME-Version:
1.0
Comments:
To: Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (14 lines) 
This one may be of interest — THE BOOK AGENT: HIS BOOK by Joshua Wright
(1904).  The text is available at archive.org.

Barb

On Saturday, January 18, 2020, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>

ATOM RSS1 RSS2