To: Members  of  The  Mark Twain Forum

From: The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies

                           The 1999 Fall Lecture Series

                     "The Trouble Begins At Eight"


Wednesday, September 15th --  Quarry Farm, 8:00 P.M.
Dr. P.  Leland Krauth, University of Colorado
"Masked Knaves and Lost Socks: A Tramp Abroad"

We are pleased to announce the Dr. Krauth's new book, The Propoer Mark
Twain (University of Georgia Press), is now available in the Elmira
College McGraw Bookstore.

Wednesday, September 29th --  Quarry Farm, 8:00 P.M.
Dr. Peter Messent, University of Nottingham
"Straw-filled Fossils, Solitary Oesophagi, Woe-worn Men Up Telegraph
Poles:
The Quest Comedy in Mark Twain's Short Stories and Sketches"

Wednesday, October 20th --  Quarry Farm, 8:00 P.M.
Dr. Janice McIntire-Strasburg, St. Louis University
"Mark Twain's Farewell To Journalism"

Tuesday, November 30th --  Hamilton Great Hall, 8:00 P.M.
The Mark Twain Society Lecture
and Celebration of Samuel and Olivia Clemens's Birthdays

Dr. Lawrence Berkove, University of Michigan
"The Secret Source of Roughing It (s) Humor"