Does anyone know if Twain wrote a piece called `How Eli Perkins Lectured in
Pottsville' ?

Eli Perkins (aka Melville D. Landon) claimed this was published in Harpers
Magazine in the early 1870s and credits Twain as the author. I suspect
Landon himself is the author or else he is reprinting extracts of some
review published by Twain under another title, perhaps on another subject. I
find nothing in LETTERS, BAL, Tenney, Camfield, or the usual reliable
sources. My Harper Index only goes up to 1870...

Landon was a serial "borrower" of others' writings, anthologizing Twain and
others without permission in some of his books, etc., so anything's
possible.

Any clues will be greatly appreciated!

Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX 78730