http://bit.ly/14tksx3 On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Leslie Myrick <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Hi Tracey, > MTP editors have identified the writer of the review as Jamestown = > Journal editor Coleman E. Bishop. > Here is a link to the reference on MTPO (if this link doesn't work for = > you, search on "contentious editor"): > = > http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=3Dletters/UCCL00430.xml;que= > > ry=3D%22contentious%20editor%22;searchAll=3D;sectionType1=3D;sectionType2=3D= > ;sectionType3=3D;sectionType4=3D;sectionType5=3D;style=3Dletter;brand=3Dmt= > p#1 > > If you click on "print view" in the upper right of the document viewer, = > you will get the letter text and the full set of references for the = > letter on a single, printable page. > > Hope this helps. > > Leslie Myrick > Mark Twain Project=20 > > On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Tracy Wuster wrote: > > > Hello all, > >=20 > > In "My Father Mark Twain," Clara tells the story of how Twain would > > write but not send letters to vent his anger. She gives the example > > (p69-70) of a letter to a man who had written an unsigned review of > > Twain's Jamestown, N.Y. lecture in 1870. > >=20 > > Roughly 16 years later, this man wrote to Twain asking for help > > obtaining a consulship, to which Twain offered to instead provide a > > rope or a burial permit. The critique of Twain's lecture is quite > > funny in how it so blatantly missed the point, and I would be tempted > > to call it a satire, if not for Twain's letter. > >=20 > > The review is on Stephen Railton's site (scroll down): > >=20 > > http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/onstage/sandrev4.html > >=20 > > Does anyone have any guesses on the identity of the reviewer? I > > searched through the letters online at the MTP and didn't have any > > luck making the connection, so I thought I would seek out some help. > >=20 > > Thanks in advance, > >=20 > > Tracy Wuster > -- John Muller 202.236.3413 / [log in to unmask] Washington Syndicate / Capital Community News / Greater Greater Washington *Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C: The Lion of Anacostia<http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-c-Anacostia/dp/1609495772/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=H42HP4SBZ8OA&coliid=I34OMAR1SV8L9G> * [The History Press, October 2012] http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JohnMul Forthcoming: "Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent" [The History Press, Fall 2013] Discover the Fascinating Life of Frederick Douglass in DC<http://www.sidetour.com/experiences/discover-the-fascinating-life-of-frederick-douglass-in-dc> - [April 6 & 20, 1pm - 2:30pm]