I can report 8 references in the SF Bulletin between 1855 (the year of Ludlow's HASHEESH EATER) and 1868 (Twain's final visit to SF), and none pertain to Twain. If I can figure out a way to get a sample of Killickinnick tobacco out of my bundle without damage I'll get it tested and see what else it contained besides tobacco. Depending on the results I might even smoke some --well, not really. I once lit up an antique Mark Twain cigar just to see what would happen and it was so incredibly dry that it burst into flames in my hand before I could take a drag. This is a problem that you don't face with old whiskey, unless of course you light it. Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 Member: ABAA, ILAB ************************* You may browse our books at www.macdonnellrarebooks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert E Stewart" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 6:57 PM Subject: Re: Countercultural Twain > Go to cndc.ucr.edu (no www needed) and bracket your inquiry to, say, > 1861-1868 and search "Hasheesh." There are a dozen references in the > newspapers, and remember that the venerable SF Bulletin isn't included on > that site. > They knew it was narcotic, but it appears to have been in common usage. > Consider today's American attitude toward cigarettes compared to the > image I > have of my uncle, a surgeon in WWII Europe, lighting a cigarette for a > wounded man on a stretcher. His own children, born postwar, said "That > can't be > Dad" because of the cigarette. No one ever said Twain was not a man of > his > time. > > Bob Stewart > > > In a message dated 9/10/2013 11:58:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > No single experiment could yield valid results unless it is conducted > over > m= > any years. There are too many strains of the stuff - and each affects the > us= > er differently > > --- I have it from a reliable source. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Larry, I think I am correct is stating unequivocally that more than a >> few >> on this LIST have already performed that experiment. >>=20 >> More usefully: the old Hoffman thesis about MT's possible sexual >> adventuring in the mining camps and then SF was based to a large extent > on= > >> speculations about the "counter-cultures" already at work in those > regions= > . >> What do we actually know about marijuana usage at the same time, and > those= > >> same places? For instance, as the reporter on theatre in SF, I would >> imagine that he was at least around the stuff, and knew the smell, etc. >>=20 >> just thinking out loud here, --Hal B. >>=20 >>=20 >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]> > wrote= > : >>=20 >>> Peter-- >>>=20 >>> I don't know if this is true, but it might explain why some of my > student= > s >>> =3D >>> claim that Twain reads funnier under certain conditions. Before anyone > o= > n >>> =3D >>> this list performs this experiment oneself, >>=20 >> --=20 >> Prof. Harold K. Bush >> Professor of English >> 3800 Lindell >> Saint Louis University >> St. Louis, MO 63108 >> 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) >> <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml> > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3222/6652 - Release Date: 09/10/13 >