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.