Sandra, thanks. Best, Loren ________________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Sandra Uetz [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 2:28 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Did this Seattle interview occur? Loren- =A0 You will find an account of this interview in Gary Scharnhorst's excellent = resource, MARK TWAIN: THE COMPLETE INTERVIEWS, p. 186. =A0 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= =3D nd the United States as part of a book, web and documentary project called = =3D "Traveling with Twain in Search of America's Identity" (our website is trav= =3D elingwithtwain.org).=A0 The trip will end in Seattle in December.=A0 Willia= m H.=3D Hadley, a family friend, provided me with a clipping from a Frank Lynch co= =3D lumn in the January 3, 1957, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.=A0 The column is t= it=3D led "The Cub Reporter and Mark Twain Unsuited."=A0 The column includes an a= cc=3D ount by Ray O. Hadley, William Hadley's father, of interviewing Twain, who = =3D was in the area for an appearance in 1895 at Lighthouse Hall, later "the up= =3D per stories of the Bellingham First National Bank Building."=A0 Hadley was = a =3D cub reporter for The Blade, a local tri-weekly.=A0 So the story goes, Hadle= y =3D went to the Fairhaven Hotel to interview Twain, who was walking around in l= =3D ong, trap-door underwear.=A0=A0=A0Hadley asked Twain, "And what do you thin= k of o=3D ur Northwest, sir?"=A0 Having experienced a period of fires, Twain had not = se=3D en sun, sky or tree tops.=A0 He said, "My God, I haven't seen any of it but= t=3D he ground."=A0 Hadley raced back to The Blade to write a short article unde= r =3D the headline: "Mark Twain, Unsuited.=A0 Interviewed by Blade Reporter."=A0 = Lync=3D h ends his column about Roy Hadley: "Noting as wonderful ever happened to h= =3D im again."=A0 Is there a way to determine whether such an article ever ran = in=3D the tri-weekly Blade (by the way, it would not have had a byline)?=A0 I hav= e=3D not been able to locate copies of The Blade.=A0 =A0 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.=A0 I've found copies available on Amazon, some= f=3D or rather exorbitant amounts and others for less than $20.=A0 I've ordered = a =3D copy.=A0 Meanwhile I did find a source of pdfs at California Digital Newspa= pe=3D r Collection, cdnc.ucr.edu The pdfs are readable but the scanned text is al= =3D most useless.=A0 If you wish text copies you'd probably save time by just t= yp=3D 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,= =3D the virtual on-line world.=A0 I created a web page from the first chapter t= h=3D at includes a link to the YouTube recording as well as an image of the Lett= =3D er form Mark Twain published August 18, 1867, written June 6, 1867, the day= =3D before the Quaker City left the dock. http://bsh.bscottholmes.com/twain/innocents/chapter1