Twain also had at least a tangential relationship to Hearst in the late 19th/early 20th centuries with his nephew, Samuel Moffat, working as a newspaperman in San Francisco. ~+~+~+~+~ Mr. A. B. Effgen Research Systems and Funding Information Office of Sponsored Programs Boston University 25 Buick Street Boston, MA 02215 ph: (617) 353-4365 fax: (617) 353-6660 On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:53 PM, "Thomas Rankin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > P.S. - I know the Call was not a Hearst paper at the time Twain wrote > for it, but it became a Hearst paper through a series of acquisitions > beginning in 1913. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Hearst and Twain > Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:47:53 -0800 > From: Thomas Rankin <[log in to unmask]> > To: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> > References: <[log in to unmask]> > > > > Found a note (150.1-2) in the Autobiography that "Clemens was hired as > the local reporter for the San Francisco Morning Call in June 1864." > Twain says that in 1865 the editor "invited me to resign." > > Tom > > Gretchen Martin wrote: > >> Twain wrote for the San Francisco Daily Alta California in the mid60s but t= >> hat would have been before Hearst got into the industry, and I don't think = >> Hearst had any connection to the paper. =20 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of bobgill2@VERI= >> ZON.NET >> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 9:02 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: Hearst and Twain >> >> >> >>> This morning the San Francisco Chronicle, which has become a Hearst=20 >>> paper, ran an article about their 125 years in the newspaper business=20 >>> and cited writers who had worked for them, including Mark Twain. >>> Does anyone know what in particular Twain wrote for William Randoph Hearst= >>> >>> >> ? >> >> In the 1860s he did some writing for the Dramatic Chronicle (or some simila= >> r name, if that's not it), which I believe *became* today's Chronicle. But = >> I don't know of any connection that paper had to Hearst. As far as I know, = >> the only San Francisco paper he ran during his lifetime was the Examiner, w= >> hich his father had bought sometime in the 1880s. Hearst later acquired pap= >> ers in Chicago, New York and elsewhere, so it's possible that Mark Twain di= >> d write for one of his papers at some point, but I don't believe he wrote a= >> nything for a San Francisco paper owned by Hearst. >> >> -- Bob G. >> >> >>