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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