I have no doubt this identification is correct. But doesn't the letter signed "Many Citizens" in some ways smack of something Clemens himself might have written as a publicity tool? Carl Sent from my iPad On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:03 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