Loren- You will find an account of this interview in Gary Scharnhorst's excellent resource, MARK TWAIN: THE COMPLETE INTERVIEWS, p. 186. Bon voyage, Sandra Uetz --- On Sat, 10/1/11, Loren Ghiglione <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Loren Ghiglione <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Did this Seattle interview occur? To: [log in to unmask] Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011, 10:26 PM Dear Forum members: Two students and I are two weeks into a three-month, 12,000-mile drive arou= nd the United States as part of a book, web and documentary project called = "Traveling with Twain in Search of America's Identity" (our website is trav= elingwithtwain.org). The trip will end in Seattle in December. William H.= Hadley, a family friend, provided me with a clipping from a Frank Lynch co= lumn in the January 3, 1957, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The column is tit= led "The Cub Reporter and Mark Twain Unsuited." The column includes an acc= ount by Ray O. Hadley, William Hadley's father, of interviewing Twain, who = was in the area for an appearance in 1895 at Lighthouse Hall, later "the up= per stories of the Bellingham First National Bank Building." Hadley was a = cub reporter for The Blade, a local tri-weekly. So the story goes, Hadley = went to the Fairhaven Hotel to interview Twain, who was walking around in l= ong, trap-door underwear. Hadley asked Twain, "And what do you think of o= ur Northwest, sir?" Having experienced a period of fires, Twain had not se= en sun, sky or tree tops. He said, "My God, I haven't seen any of it but t= he ground." Hadley raced back to The Blade to write a short article under = the headline: "Mark Twain, Unsuited. Interviewed by Blade Reporter." Lync= h ends his column about Roy Hadley: "Noting as wonderful ever happened to h= im again." Is there a way to determine whether such an article ever ran in= the tri-weekly Blade (by the way, it would not have had a byline)? I have= not been able to locate copies of The Blade. Best, Loren Ghiglione -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Holmes Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:49 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Traveling with the Innocents Abroad Thank you all for this lead. I've found copies available on Amazon, some f= or rather exorbitant amounts and others for less than $20. I've ordered a = copy. Meanwhile I did find a source of pdfs at California Digital Newspape= r Collection, cdnc.ucr.edu The pdfs are readable but the scanned text is al= most useless. If you wish text copies you'd probably save time by just typ= ing the letters out rather than trying to correct the scanned text. My avatar has been doing readings from The Innocents Abroad in Second Life,= the virtual on-line world. I created a web page from the first chapter th= at includes a link to the YouTube recording as well as an image of the Lett= er form Mark Twain published August 18, 1867, written June 6, 1867, the day= before the Quaker City left the dock. http://bsh.bscottholmes.com/twain/innocents/chapter1