Thanks Barb- I can now add to my public lecture series a day by day local weather and corruption report to notable Twain-centered events and articles. My new library series “A Brutally Brief Biography of Mark Twain” begins October 1 at the Venice Public Library in Venice Florida, and the reported Redding temperature for April 21 was 50*. On another note, Mark Twain Education Society of Sarasota and Manatee Counties Is seeking new plays about Twain’s Life, times and/or characters. If anyone in this group has or knows of an unproduced work that might be a fit, we want to consider it for development and production. Please contact me directly for details. Alan Kitty, Executive Director Mark Twain Education Society [log in to unmask] Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 20, 2019, at 10:36 AM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Steve, > > Absolutely correct. _Travels with Mr. Brown_ are letters before the > cruise. If you want to read the original appearance of the letters, see > the historical newspaper databases. The ALTA is now online and searchable > at elephind.com. I just ran the search at elephind and got 64 hits for Mark > Twain Holy Land. That database is free. > > Barb > > On Friday, September 20, 2019, Steve Hoffman <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Thank you for bringing that book to my attention. Is this Kirkus Review >> not accurate? Kirkus says: "It consists of 26 letters written for a >> California newspaper in the first half of 1867 -- preceding his visit to >> Europe which is familiar to all in Innocents Abroad. The most interesting >> part, perhaps, is that section that gives a picture of life in New York in >> those days, -- of places to live, travel round and about New York, of >> Barnum, of weather, of fashions, of ministers and their congregations" >> >> Sounds very interesting and worthy of my paying the $ it commands to add >> it to my Twain library. However, it doesn't seem to contain the articles >> about the cruise and European/Middle Eastern travels that he later revised >> for Innocents Abroad. What I'd like to do is read the original >> articles/letters that later appeared in edited (some might say >> self-censored!) form, before Bret Harte and Olivia Langdon had their say, >> resulting in a toned-down (less "offensive") work. >> >> Sincerely, >> Steve Hoffman, Takoma Park MD >> >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:24 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> See _Mark Twain’s Travels with Mr. Brown_, edited by Franklin Walker and >>> G. Ezra’s Dane (1940). >>> >>> Barb >>> >>> >>>