Please see Kent Rasmussen's Critical Companion to Mark Twian Volumes One and Two, pages 439, 855-856, 900, for further color background to Ricahrdson and his association with Clemens. Rick Talbot Saint Paul, Minnesota The place Where Nothing Is Allowed -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Benjamin Griffin Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 6:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Albert Deane Richardson See the letter from SLC to Bliss, 2 Dec 1867, in Mark Twain's Letters,=20 Volume 2, available online at marktwainproject.org: "But I know Richardson, & learned from him, some months ago, something=20 of an idea of the subscription plan of publishing." [Note:] Albert Deane Richardson (1833=9669), a journalist and western=20 traveler, became chief war correspondent for the New York Tribune in 1860.=20 Captured at Vicksburg while attempting to run past the Confederate batteries with=20 two other reporters, he escaped from a Southern prison eighteen months later.=20 After the war he compiled two books incorporating his Tribune dispatches: The Secre= t Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape (1865), which had a sale = of one hundred thousand copies, and Beyond the Mississippi (1867), which sold seventy-five thousand copies by late 1869. Both books were published and = sold by the American Publishing Company (=93Albert D. Richardson,=94 New York=20 Tribune, 3 Dec 69, 1). Clemens=92s conversation with Richardson =93some months ago=94= =20 probably occurred in January 1867, for on 2 February he said in his letter to the = Alta that =93Richardson is hard at work on his new book concerning the Far Wes= t,=94 published in mid-1867 as Beyond the Mississippi. Richardson=92s current=20 project for the American Publishing Company, which would bring him to=20 Washington, was A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant (1868). Harriet Smith