Thanks all; one can (almost) always count on the Twain forum. -- B. Clay Shannon [log in to unmask] > On Jan 18, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Benjamin Griffin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Not to be missed, which it might be because of its rather unspecific title, > is the book *Facts: By A Woman*, about which see > http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/marketin/facts2.html > >> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:22 AM Alan Kitty <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> I will see your wager and raise the pot that you are right about those >> interesting stories. I’m not only the Jim Smiley of Book Agents, I was >> among the last of them. >> >> My door to door experience took the form of the Encyclopedia Americana. I >> know from accounts from Twain’s time that the sample cases, sample books, >> and I’m guessing much of the sales pitch remained essentially unchanged >> from his time to mine. >> Alan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Alan Kitty, Executive Director >> Mark Twain Education Society >> >> “Laughter can shatter the most colossal humbug; blow it to rags and atoms >> with a single blast.” >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Jan 18, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Did any book agent write up his experiences - what it was like >> traveling around the country, from house to house and farm to farm, selling >> people advance copies of Twain's next book? I would wager a healthy sum >> that there were some quite interesting stories to tell. >>> - B. Clay Shannon >> > > > -- > Benjamin Griffin > Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project > The Bancroft Library > University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000 > (510) 664-4238