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http://www.lsoft.com/images/listserv_64x64.pngA Connecticut Yankee in Australia
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Having just come across the Day By Day entry for March 8, 1890 with its<br>reference to Joseph Jones’ article, “Mark Twain’s Yankee and Australian<br>Nationalism” (American Literature, May 1968), I began to wonder how much<br>Connecticut Yankee influenced his reception in Australia in 1895. Miriam<br>Shillingsburg, in the preface to her book “At Home Abroad” writes: “The<br>social significance of Twain’s visit is indicated by the welcome he<br>received from the highest classes of society”. Jones writes in his<br>article, comparing the reception of Connecticut Yankee in England to<br>that of Australia: “In Australia, contrariwise, scarcely anything that<br>Mark [...]
2024-03-18T15:43:54-07:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;a1d37bb9.2403Re: Passengers and Crew of the Quaker City
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In an article published on June 5, 1910 in the Brooklyn Eagle, interviewing Stephen Griswold, they publish a list of passengers it says came from a newspaper clipping, but doesn't identify the origin of the clipping. The passenger list doesn't match either of the three lists I mentioned earlier. It also includes the following list of Officers: [...]
2024-03-12T14:56:50-04:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;dff53217.2403Re: Spelling changes in different editions
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I was looking at Twain’s letters in 1869, while he was correcting the proofs for The Innocents Abroad, and found an interesting paragraph about spelling in the book. In a letter to the publisher, Elisha Bliss, Jr. on April 20, 1869, he wrote:<br><br>I wish you would have my revises revised again & look over them yourself & see that my marks have been corrected. A proof-reader who persists in making two words ‸(& sometimes even compound words)‸ of “anywhere” and “everything;” & who spells [ <https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00286.xml;query=;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#>villainy ] <https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00286.xml;query=;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#> “villiany” & “[ <https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00286.xml;query=;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#>liquifies ] <https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00286.xml;query=;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#>” &c, &c, is not three [...]
2024-03-04T18:06:04-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;8b6e513c.2403Call for Papers: The Mark Twain Circle at MLA 2025
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Dear colleagues,<br><br>I’m sorry to learn that the Clemens Conference has been cancelled, but hope that a few folks on this list will find consolation in the CFP here.<br>Judith<br><br>The Mark Twain Circle invites papers to be presented at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025.<br><br>Papers may address any topic related to Mark Twain, his life, and his writings. The Circle particularly invites proposals from graduate students and early-career scholars and topics grounded in contemporary approaches and concerns—what we might classify as “Not Your Granddaddy’s Mark Twain”—but all relevant proposals are welcome. [...]
2024-02-20T23:17:21+00:00Lee, Judithhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;f6facd93.24022024 Clemens Conference Canceled
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The 2024 Clemens Conference scheduled for August 1-3 has been canceled. There were not enough paper proposals received to hold the conference.This was not an easy decision. We hope this does not inconvenience anyone. We do look forward to a future event in Hannibal, Missouri.<br>Henry Sweets, DirectorMark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum
2024-02-20T19:35:10+00:00Kevin Bochynskihttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;57eb16ad.2402Re: [External] Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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In Harriet Smith's intro to Vol. I of the actual Autobiography, she describes Neider's methods in the brief terms they deserve, with a few more follow-up references. Let's hope to be hovering round in 2099 when the actual Autobiography (in which Ben's name figures prominently!) is named one of the 100 most important books of the 21st century.
2024-02-15T18:28:02+00:00Steve Courtneyhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;aef835af.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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Blasphemy! ;-)<br><br>DDD<br><br>On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 12:08 PM Paul Kleven <pkleven55@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>> As I recall, he enthusiastically cut passages that he considered extraneous<br>> from the last third of his edition of Huck Finn, stating the percentage of<br>> words he had cut from each chapter.<br>><br>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:02 AM Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com><br>> wrote:<br>><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > Singularly informative essay, Barbara! Thanks<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > DDD<br>> ><br>>
2024-02-15T12:09:56-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;1f0152ec.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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As I recall, he enthusiastically cut passages that he considered extraneous<br>from the last third of his edition of Huck Finn, stating the percentage of<br>words he had cut from each chapter.<br><br>On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:02 AM Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Singularly informative essay, Barbara! Thanks<br>><br>><br>> DDD<br>>
2024-02-15T08:28:34-08:00Paul Klevenhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;372f852a.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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><br>><br>> Singularly informative essay, Barbara! Thanks<br><br>DDD
2024-02-15T10:01:38-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;630bcce9.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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I wrote a short thumbnail bio of Neider for Ebsco years ago covering his<br>background, career, and work on Mark Twain -- his Twain AUTOBIOGRAHY was<br>named one of the 100 best nonfiction English language books of the 20th<br>century by Modern Library in 1999. Here is my article:<br><br>~~~~~<br><br>Charles Neider was born in Odessa, Russia in 1915, the son of Colya Neider,<br>a Jewish banker and his wife Olga. When Neider was about six years old, the<br>family fled Russia amid political anti-Jewish upheaval. With assistance<br>from relatives who had earlier immigrated to the United States, the family<br> [...]
2024-02-15T08:39:28-06:00Barbara Schmidthttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;c21fee43.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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Aw heck. I thought Ben was talking about me and I took it as a<br>compliment.<br><br>Kevin<br>@<br>Mac Donnell Rare Books<br>9307 Glenlake Drive<br>Austin TX 78730<br>512-345-4139<br><br>You can browse our books at:<br>www.macdonnellrarebooks.com<br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "Matt Seybold" <mseybold@elmira.edu><br>To: TWAIN-L@yorku.ca<br>Sent: 2/14/2024 10:23:19 PM<br>Subject: Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?<br><br>>I might grade Neider a mite higher than Kevin & Ben do, but if you think (as I do) that the Cold War era propagandizing of Twain has been a net negative for both Twain scholarship & Twain’s reputation, Neider has to be at [...]
2024-02-15T14:01:47+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;6928db8b.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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I might grade Neider a mite higher than Kevin & Ben do, but if you think (as I do) that the Cold War era propagandizing of Twain has been a net negative for both Twain scholarship & Twain’s reputation, Neider has to be at the top of the list of Twain scholars who were complicit in that propagandizing, if not necessarily driving it. - MS [...]
2024-02-14T23:23:19-05:00Matt Seyboldhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;f0ee4bd9.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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A conscienceless plunderer.<br><br>On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 1:16 PM <info@macdonnellrarebooks.com> wrote:<br><br>> Well, you caught me in a good mood, the weather clear, my hopes bright,<br>> birds chirping nearby, and feeling more charitable than I've felt in<br>> months. So, you might have to factor this in when I grade Mr. Neider on<br>> a curve, but I'd give him an F.<br>><br>> That's his grade as an editor. As for popularizing Twain, he seemed<br>> quite good at PR, either promoting himself or Twain.<br>><br>> Kevin<br>> @<br>> Mac Donnell Rare Books<br>> 9307 [...]
2024-02-14T20:13:30-08:00Benjamin Griffinhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;5eab9aba.2402Re: Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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Well, you caught me in a good mood, the weather clear, my hopes bright,<br>birds chirping nearby, and feeling more charitable than I've felt in<br>months. So, you might have to factor this in when I grade Mr. Neider on<br>a curve, but I'd give him an F.<br><br>That's his grade as an editor. As for popularizing Twain, he seemed<br>quite good at PR, either promoting himself or Twain. [...]
2024-02-14T21:15:32+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;843ccb1b.2402Charles Neider, editorial reputation?
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https://www.edseditions.com/pages/books/192304/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-colonel-sellers-edited-with-an-introduction-notes-by-charles-neider<br><br>I'm reading in this version, while I wait for my Library of American volume<br>to come in the mail.<br>In it, Neider took the liberty of excising Warner's chapters, leaving<br>SLC's, and explained why he thought that was a good idea. Apparently<br>Doubleday (the publishers) thought so as well. I guess there was market<br>demand for 'new' Twain works in the American book market at the time. [...]
2024-02-14T11:04:40-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;a41b0a57.2402Re: Spelling changes in different editions
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That said, looking over the list you gave, *Innocents* (1869) clearly<br>preserves a lot of authorial spellings. Clemens's preferences as found in<br>the MSS are:<br><br>ancle<br>centre<br>irruption<br>lustre<br>ploughed<br>pretence<br>spectre<br>sceptre<br>staid<br>theatre<br><br>Clemens was a 99% excellent speller but some diosyncratic spellings of his,<br>which sometimes survived into print but more often were "ancled" by the<br>printer, include "recal" (for recall), "envelop" (for envelope), and<br>"rhind." He never mastered the exceptions to "i before e", and invariably<br>wrote "wierd" and "sieze." So in some respects the printers were doing<br>valuable work. [...]
2024-02-12T19:22:04-08:00Benjamin Griffinhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;adbc1d69.2402Re: Spelling changes in different editions
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What Barb said!<br><br>I'll add that the forthcoming Mark Twain Project edition of *Pudd'nhead<br>Wilson* (April 30, 2024) contains detailed discussion of publishers' and<br>printers' changes to Clemens's spelling. But the executive summary is:<br>printers were generally expected to impose house style and "correct" and<br>regularize spelling. So, even for the first printings -- and even for the<br>books Clemens published himself (as Charles L. Webster and Co.) -- the<br>spelling (and punctuation, and paragraphing) can't be assumed to be his. [...]
2024-02-12T18:34:46-08:00Benjamin Griffinhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;314abb7c.2402Re: Spelling changes in different editions
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Philip,<br><br>You might be interested in my history of the uniform editions -- online at<br><br>http://www.twainquotes.com/UniformEds/toc.html<br><br>Forrest Morgan was the proofreader hired by Bliss to help put together the<br>later editions and there is little evidence Clemens took an active interest<br>in the revisions for the 1899 and later volumes.<br><br>Barb<br><br>On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 5:39 PM Philip Trauring <philip@trauring.com> wrote: [...]
2024-02-12T18:02:01-06:00Barbara Schmidthttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;96412066.2402Spelling changes in different editions
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I’ve been comparing the spelling between the first edition (1869) of The Innocents Abroad, and the Author’s National Edition (which is copyright 1897 and 1899).<br><br>I’m curious if the changes in spelling were approved by Twain, in this edition, or other uniform editions (which I have not yet looked at). Has there been anything written about the changes between editions and how they came about? [...]
2024-02-12T18:39:17-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;81d98b48.2402Re: Passengers and Crew of the Quaker City
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Bursley was also mentioned in Twain's story in Innocents Abroad about<br>riding donkeys in the Azores. The story is much more hilarious in<br>Twain's notebook than the final version in the book.<br><br>On 2/6/2024 1:43 PM, info@MACDONNELLRAREBOOKS.COM wrote:<br>> The Bell journal, which I own, contains a complete list of the crew<br>> and their home towns, and I think their positions. Bell also made a<br>> list of the passengers and obtained most of their autographs. I can<br>> send you those relevant pages later today when I am back in the office.<br>><br>> Kevin<br>> @<br>> [...]
2024-02-06T14:37:00-05:00Philip Bauerhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;ff3f43b3.2402Re: Passengers and Crew of the Quaker City
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The Bell journal, which I own, contains a complete list of the crew and<br>their home towns, and I think their positions. Bell also made a list of<br>the passengers and obtained most of their autographs. I can send you<br>those relevant pages later today when I am back in the office.<br><br>Kevin<br>@<br>Mac Donnell Rare Books<br>9307 Glenlake Drive<br>Austin TX 78730<br>512-345-4139 [...]
2024-02-06T18:43:19+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;635dde8.2402Passengers and Crew of the Quaker City
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In checking the passenger and crew that were on the Quaker City, there seem to be some obvious lists to check. For passengers, there are three published lists I’m aware of:<br><br>NY Times, June 9, 1867<br>- This list has at least 10 names of people that were not on the ship, such as Maggie Mitchell and her mother. [...]
2024-02-06T12:33:15-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;5dcf702a.2402Re: Typescript of William Denny's journal
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I don't know the time lag between publication in the MTJ and appearance<br>on JSTOR, but I know that searching for things on JSTOR can be<br>frustrating. I can do searches there using my own name and find most of<br>my own essays and lots of references to me, but when I search for my<br>name with several key words added to narrow down a search I sometimes<br>get dozens and sometimes hundreds of results that have nothing to do<br>with my name or even some of the key words. Go figure. I'd suggest<br>contacting the MTJ. Both of those [...]
2024-02-06T17:28:25+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;181d2909.2402Re: Typescript of William Denny's journal
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Kevin,<br><br>I was actually looking to subscribe, but didn’t seen any issues published since 2022. Maybe the web site is just out of date. It would be great if there was a way to search all the articles on the web site. I did search in JSTOR for the articles in MTJ about the Denny journal, but I didn’t find anything. That search is definitely not perfect, however. If the articles are on JSTOR, I’d appreciate direct links to them. [...]
2024-02-06T11:40:28-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;3393a349.2402Re: [External] Mark Twain & Hartford's Black Community ?
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Greetings all! I was able to help John a bit with his query via an old-fashioned telephone conversation, but wanted to make clear that the presentation he's referencing is a virtual talk in the Mark Twain House's "Trouble Begins" series tomorrow night (Wednesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.) on Douglass and Twain. Read all about it: [...]
2024-02-06T15:53:45+00:00Steve Courtneyhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;938f500.2402Re: Typescript of William Denny's journal
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Mr. Trauring,<br>I believe the typescript Virginia has was made by a bevy of<br>stenographers/typists who worked for *Life Magazine* sometime in the 1950s.<br>Elizabeth Denny Vann had interested the magazine in running a story using<br>Denny's journal and the fifty or so cartes-de-visite of the *Quaker<br>City *passengers<br>that he had collected. They divided the original up among half a dozen<br>typists and all went at it at once. The result was pretty unreliable, even<br>without the missing pages, and in the end *Life* decided not to run a<br>story. As you may know, the original of the journal [...]
2024-02-06T07:49:29-08:00Robert H. HIRSThttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;bde68a58.2402Re: Typescript of William Denny's journal
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AHA!! Somebody needs to subscribe to the Mark Twain Journal!<br><br>I cite the typescript, which was prepared by Robert Hirst at the Mark<br>Twain Papers in 2003, in two of my recent essays in the MTJ--the Lick<br>House Banquet, and Robert Bell's Quaker City journal.<br><br>The MTP also has the original Denny journal ms. [...]
2024-02-06T15:32:36+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;3f7fed33.2402Typescript of William Denny's journal
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The University of Virginia has a microfilm of a 274pg typescript of the journal of William R. Denny during the voyage of the Quaker City:<br><br>https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03491.xml<br>I asked about it at the library, and was told that pages 142-201 are missing from the microfilm.<br><br>So my question is, what is the origin of the typescript? Is there a full copy of it somewhere? [...]
2024-02-06T09:27:07-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;87f146c1.2402Re: Mark Twain & Hartford's Black Community ?
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Good morning. If the previous message is not already queued - can you<br>please send the below that has a small edit? Thank you.<br><br>- JM<br><br>---<br>Hi, all.<br><br>As I scurry to compile a most thorough upcoming presentation on the<br>friendship and associations of Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass I have<br>pondered on Mark Twain's connections and/or relationship with Hartford's<br>Black community during his years living there. [...]
2024-02-05T08:49:25-05:00John H. Mullerhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e8f23a16.2402Mark Twain & Hartford's Black Community ?
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Hi, all.<br><br>As I scurry to compile a most thorough upcoming presentation on the<br>friendship and associations of Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass I have<br>pondered on Mark Twain's connections and/or relationship with Hartford's<br>Black community during his years living there.<br><br>I have reviewed available sources on Twain and John T. Lewis and George<br>Griffin but am looking moreso for Twain's possible philanthropy and/or more<br>general interactions with and towards Hartford's Black community. I have<br>been able to confirm the relationships of Douglass to several members of<br>Hartford's Black community while Twain is a resident. My inquiry is in<br>possibly [...]
2024-02-05T05:18:33-05:00John H. Mullerhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;7a69ebc2.2402The Clemens Conference 2024: Additional Information - Proposals for Papers; Deadline: February 15, 2024
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N.B. This posting is made on behalf of The Mark Twain Home Foundation. Please contact Henry Sweets for additional information<br><br>The Clemens Conference 2024: Additional Information<br><br>The Mark Twain Home Foundation in Hannibal, Missouri, will host its fourth<br>quadrennial edition of The Clemens Conference Thursday through Saturday, August 1-2-<br>3, 2024.<br><br>The conference will be in downtown Hannibal. Paper presentations will be at the Mark<br>Twain Museum Gallery, 120 North Main Street. The Call for Papers is below.<br>At this time the cost for the Clemens Conference will be $216 which includes the<br>opening reception, all sessions, visiting the Mark [...]
2024-01-29T18:26:10+00:00Kevin Bochynskihttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;976cd5e7.2401Re: Mark Twain and Me
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That is a tough one to do; I have it on my substack:<br><br>https://ramblingnotesofageezer.substack.com/<br><br>On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:34 PM Scott Holmes <scott@bscottholmes.com><br>wrote:<br><br>> I attempted to make a recording of "Death of Jean" but I was unable to<br>> finish the reading. I guess it hit me pretty hard. My recording is<br>> buried away in my You Tube collection.<br>><br>> On 1/28/24 12:37, Dave Davis wrote:<br>> > Jean was away a lot.<br>> ><br>> > The supreme tragedy of those final weeks in 1909 was that she was finally<br>> > back in [...]
2024-01-29T06:45:00-08:00B. Clay Shannonhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;2d7561ec.2401Re: Mark Twain and Me
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I attempted to make a recording of "Death of Jean" but I was unable to<br>finish the reading. I guess it hit me pretty hard. My recording is<br>buried away in my You Tube collection.<br><br>On 1/28/24 12:37, Dave Davis wrote:<br>> Jean was away a lot.<br>><br>> The supreme tragedy of those final weeks in 1909 was that she was finally<br>> back in the household, a poignancy he rendered (possibly over to bathos) in<br>> the 'Death of Jean' chapter.<br>><br>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 3:23 PM Scott Holmes<scott@bscottholmes.com> wrote:<br>><br>>> The other night [...]
2024-01-28T23:32:51-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;b8681f23.2401Re: Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age?
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><br>><br>> Thanks -- I went with the Library of America edition for now, but the<br>> Oxford MT edition also looks highly suitable (and if I buy it, I will go<br>> with used condition.)<br><br>Respectfully --<br><br>DDD
2024-01-28T21:52:02-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;f6128c6a.2401Re: Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age?
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>( Half of the offers on Amazon seem to say 'Vol 2' for some reason. Any<br>guesses on that? )<br><br>Some (or maybe all) of the "complete works" sets published around 1900 and later split the longer books -- Innocents Aborad, Roughing It -- into two volumes, so it's possible that they did the same with The Gilded Age.<br> -- Bob G.
2024-01-29T01:51:46+00:00Bob Gillhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;2f74ac0c.2401Re: Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age?
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Why not read the 1996 Oxford edition? It reproduces the easy-to-read<br>first edition with the original illustrations. Copies are for sale<br>(exlibrary and otherwise) for under $25 at eBay, ABE, Biblio, etc.<br><br>Kevin<br>@<br>Mac Donnell Rare Books<br>9307 Glenlake Drive<br>Austin TX 78730<br>512-345-4139<br><br>You can browse our books at:<br>www.macdonnellrarebooks.com<br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "Dave Davis" <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com><br>To: TWAIN-L@yorku.ca<br>Sent: 1/28/2024 7:05:58 PM<br>Subject: Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age? [...]
2024-01-29T01:46:11+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;8421a030.2401Re: Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age?
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I just read the Modern Library edition with Joe Csicsilla notes. It’s excellent. - MS<br><br>> On Jan 28, 2024, at 8:22 PM, John Greenman <johngreenman4@gmail.com> wrote:<br>><br>> If you’d like a free audio version of the Gilded Age… I recorded it for<br>> archive.org about 13 years ago!!<br>> https://archive.org/details/the_gilded_age_jg_librivox<br>> 👍🧐<br>><br>> John Greenman<br>> 207-974-9911<br>><br>><br>>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com><br>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> I confess that I have never yet read it, but I would now like to.<br>>><br>>> In hardcover, and with good, readable text [...]
2024-01-28T20:33:32-05:00Matt Seyboldhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e4c2c4e5.2401Re: Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age?
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If you’d like a free audio version of the Gilded Age… I recorded it for<br>archive.org about 13 years ago!!<br>https://archive.org/details/the_gilded_age_jg_librivox<br>👍🧐<br><br>John Greenman<br>207-974-9911<br><br>On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br><br>> I confess that I have never yet read it, but I would now like to.<br>><br>> In hardcover, and with good, readable text (for these tired old eyes).<br>><br>> Can anyone suggest an edition that I ought to get? I am also going to check<br>> my friendly local public library.<br>><br>> ( Half of the offers on Amazon seem [...]
2024-01-28T20:20:44-05:00John Greenmanhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;7a477a1c.2401Good reader's or critical edition of The Gilded Age?
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I confess that I have never yet read it, but I would now like to.<br><br>In hardcover, and with good, readable text (for these tired old eyes).<br><br>Can anyone suggest an edition that I ought to get? I am also going to check<br>my friendly local public library.<br><br>( Half of the offers on Amazon seem to say 'Vol 2' for some reason. Any<br>guesses on that? ) [...]
2024-01-28T20:05:58-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;c60c4b50.2401Re: Mark Twain and Me
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Jean was away a lot.<br><br>The supreme tragedy of those final weeks in 1909 was that she was finally<br>back in the household, a poignancy he rendered (possibly over to bathos) in<br>the 'Death of Jean' chapter.<br><br>On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 3:23 PM Scott Holmes <scott@bscottholmes.com> wrote:<br><br>> The other night my wife put on a film I was unaware of, an adaptation of<br>> Dorothy Quick's book of the same name - Mark Twain and Me. I rather<br>> enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised at the film makers treatment of<br>> Jean. Jean is rarely mentioned in [...]
2024-01-28T15:37:27-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;b90d626d.2401Mark Twain and Me
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The other night my wife put on a film I was unaware of, an adaptation of<br>Dorothy Quick's book of the same name - Mark Twain and Me. I rather<br>enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised at the film makers treatment of<br>Jean. Jean is rarely mentioned in biographies but I think she was my<br>favorite of his daughters. Unfortunately, Dorothy notes in her book that<br>she had never met Jean.
2024-01-28T12:21:52-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;c2be72f3.2401Schloss Hotel in Heidelberg
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Schloss Hotel in Heidelberg is mentioned in Baedeker’s “The Rhine from<br>Rotterdam to Constance”, 1878 edition but is not found in the 1886<br>edition – except for being identified on an included map. Twain’s own<br>description of “long, narrow, high-ceiled bird-cages hung against the<br>building.” is the best I’ve found for this location but I’d like to know<br>more. If there are any members of Twain-L that know more about or know<br>of sources about the Schloss Hotel, I’d appreciate learning of them.<br>Baedeker’s mention is brief: *SCHLOSS HOTEL. And PENSION, with fine<br>view, R. from 3.#, L. 50, A. [...]
2024-01-27T10:17:44-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;f435ef2f.2401CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Gilded Age Humor”
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*CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Gilded Age Humor”*<br><br>*Oct 18 and Oct 19, 2024*<br><br>*Elmira, NY*<br><br>The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is partnering with *Studies<br>in American Humor *to host the annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the *Fall<br>2024 semester, from October 18 to October 19*. The theme for the Symposium<br>is “Gilded Age Humor.” It will feature a keynote address by Tracy Wuster,<br>author of *Mark Twain: American Humorist* and long-time executive director<br>of the American Humor Studies Association. [...]
2024-01-25T13:15:39-06:00Tracy Wusterhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;77893069.2401Big River Heading to the Big Screen Via Playwright Douglas Lyons - TheaterMania.com
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Thought this news might be of interest to the forum.<br><br>Michael<br><br>Big River Heading to the Big Screen Via Playwright Douglas Lyons -<br>TheaterMania.com<br><br>https://www.theatermania.com/news/big-river-heading-to-the-big-screen-via-playwright-douglas-lyons_1726012/
2024-01-19T21:06:30+00:00Michael Torregrossa, Medieval in Popular Culturehttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;1b40dd2b.2401A Brazilian Revolution?
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Mark Twain was mistaken. It seems that Greed and Quests for Power do not<br>require a Monarchy. At the same time Jay Gould, a robber baron and<br>railroad magnate, was depicted in an Connecticut Yankee illustration of<br>a slave driver, Howells and Twain were celebrating the deposition of<br>Emperor Pedro II of Brazil. Rather than the socialist society envisioned<br>by Howells nor the popular overthrowing of a Monarchy as envisioned by<br>Twain, the regime of the Republic of the United States of Brazil was<br>created by coup d’etat. Brazil was now a country controlled by<br>landholding oligarchies, primarily the coffee [...]
2024-01-16T00:22:26-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;b158ed4d.2401THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS FOR THE CLEMENS CONFERENCE IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING!!
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TWAINIANS: PLEASE TAKE NOTE! THE DEADLINE<br><br>FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS FOR THE CLEMENS<br><br>CONFERENCE IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING!! SEE BELOW.<br><br> <br><br>The Clemens Conference 2024<br><br> <br><br>The Mark Twain HomeFoundation in Hannibal, Missouri, will host its fourth quadrennial edition ofThe Clemens Conference Thursday through Saturday, August 1-2-3, 2024.<br><br> <br><br>The conference will be indowntown Hannibal. Paper presentations will be at the Mark Twain MuseumGallery, 120 North Main Street. The Call for Papers is below. [...]
2024-01-12T12:30:45+00:00Kevin Bochynskihttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;193be965.2401Mark Twain Goes West, a PDF
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For those interested in this rather brief period of Mark Twain’s life, I<br>have condensed my material on his journey from St. Joseph to Carson<br>City, found in the section of Twain’s Geography titled “Sam Clemens Goes<br>West”. As most, if not all of you know, he and his brother Orion took<br>the Overland Stage. Railroads were not quite ready to cross the<br>continent yet. He was the third of three authors to write about this<br>journey and ironically was the least informative, the other two being<br>Horace Greeley and Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (not yet<br>knighted). Greeley followed [...]
2024-01-08T13:27:50-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;9decbdd9.2401May be of interest
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Out in April, a reimagination of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's viewpoint: James by Percival Everett. See The Observer (UK) 31 Dec 23.<br>Meanwhile, a happy New Year to all friends and colleagues.<br>Peter Messent (Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham)<br><br>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University [...]
2024-01-03T09:03:02+00:00Peter Messenthttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e402e731.2401Re: Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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Always nice to read about the same issue again and again. I agree with Jim<br>(as well as Gary). Clemens was a clever fellow and surely could hold two<br>kinda opposing thoughts in his head: Drinks and the drink.<br>https://marktwainstudies.com/mark-twain-libation-a-talk-by-the-2017-louis-j-budd-award-winner/<br>Happy new year!<br>Laura<br><br>On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 11:14 AM James E Caron <caron@hawaii.edu> wrote: [...]
2024-01-01T16:58:10-08:00Laura Trombleyhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e44c3dd5.2401Re: Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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An interesting blog at A potted history of pen names – National Library of Scotland Blog (nls.uk) includes a comment relative to this topic. The museum had an exhibit on pen names that ended last spring. In the blog it is noted that "By 1830 around 80% of novels were issued under a pen name or were anonymous. Printers were obliged by law to put their name on the title page of a book, and it was suggested that the law should be extended to make authors publish under their ‘real’ names, but this never happened."
2023-12-31T20:58:02+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;fbdf837f.2312Re: Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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I would not be a bit surprised if Twain was teased about his nom de<br>plume after he adopted it, but I've seen no evidence that he was being<br>teased with Alf Doten's bar tab hoax before he adopted it. The argument<br>is the origin of the nom de plume, not whether there was a bar tab hoax<br>after the fact. [...]
2023-12-31T01:04:25+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;2b4d8047.2312Re: Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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Here's two or three cents worth of thought.<br>(for who can resist a good academic controversy, especially when there can<br>be no definitive answer?)<br><br>First there is the inference from 0000002(etc) that the answer to the<br>riddle is SLC's state of mind about choosing a nom-de-plume that sticks,<br>obviously speculation, which is fine, because all the arguments rest first<br>on speculation, with varying sorts of evidence to back them up. [...]
2023-12-30T11:14:19-08:00James E Caronhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;725fd6f1.2312Re: Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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Those are interesting comments. But don't you think somebody like<br>Clemens, afflicted with venereal disease, ADHD, and latent<br>pedophilia--as a certain recent biography sensationally claims--would be<br>the same sort of fellow to pick up his nom de plume in a bar?<br><br>OK, seriously, my brief response to the latest Scharnhorst screed will<br>appear in the next Mark Twain Journal. It will involve lager beer, pale<br>ale, and another hoax that Alf Doten published that is also located in<br>Piper's Saloon (and drew a crowd). [...]
2023-12-30T00:25:02+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;637e1562.2312Re: Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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In relation to this posting, some might be interested in section on Clemens/Twain and the matter of naming in my 2023 article in American Literary History. Here’s a link to a pdf copy of the article (the most directly pertinent pages are 1188-1189 ): https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Cavitch_Twain_Talking_Cure_Literary_Form.pdf<br><br>Best regards,<br>Max Cavitch<br><br>From: Mark Twain Forum <TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA> on behalf of 0000002f015345f1-dmarc-request@YORKU.CA <0000002f015345f1-dmarc-request@YORKU.CA><br>Date: Friday, December 29, 2023 at 4:22 PM<br>To: TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA <TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA><br>Subject: Comment on the Nomme de Plume<br>I have been re-reading Gary Scharnhorst's fall 2023 MT Journal article on Sam Clemens earning the nickname "Mark Twain" from a bar tab. I [...]
2023-12-29T21:56:46+00:00Cavitch, Max Chttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e4940f64.2312Comment on the Nomme de Plume
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I have been re-reading Gary Scharnhorst's fall 2023 MT Journal article on Sam Clemens earning the nickname "Mark Twain" from a bar tab. I found the list of editors who copied the article on the topic interesting, while remembering that when Jules Verne wrote "In Search of The Castaways" in 1868 he had one of the characters say "A falsehood repeated a hundred times does not become a truth by the mere force of repetition." I have trouble believing that Sam Clemens would allow a somewhat derogatory reference to his love of lager beer to become his trade mark. Before [...]
2023-12-29T21:06:10+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;cb545944.2312Re: Mark Twain’s Partner-audio for free
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Very enjoyable, start to finish! Well Done! And thanks-<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mark Twain Forum <TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA> On Behalf Of John Greenman<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 2:01 PM<br>To: TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA<br>Subject: Mark Twain’s Partner-audio for free<br><br>FYI<br>I’ve published the old Saturday Evening Post article called “Mark Twain‘s Partner”, Higbie’s version of Sam’s silver mining time (some of which, from Sam’s POV, made its way into “Roughing It”).<br>👍😎 [...]
2023-12-19T18:36:34-05:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;70b74bf0.2312Mark Twain’s Partner-audio for free
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FYI<br>I’ve published the old Saturday Evening Post article called “Mark Twain‘s<br>Partner”, Higbie’s version of Sam’s silver mining time (some of which, from<br>Sam’s POV, made its way into “Roughing It”).<br>👍😎<br><br>https://archive.org/details/marktwainspartner_2312_librivox<br><br>John Greenman<br>207-974-9911
2023-12-19T14:00:55-05:00John Greenmanhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;8175b38.2312Re: missing an autographed picture to my great grandfather
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I checked three auction databases for any record connected with Twain<br>and the name Stalberg, and found nothing. Unless the name was spelled<br>incorrectly in those databases, my search would have turned up any<br>books, photos, or letters.<br><br>Even if you do find the photo in a library, archive, or private<br>collection, you will not be able to make any sort of claim to ownership<br>unless you can document that it was stolen, something that is usually<br>recognized by a court only if a theft report was filed. You'd also need<br>to present wills and show you are the legal [...]
2023-12-19T18:18:41+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;67de12.2312missing an autographed picture to my great grandfather
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My family is missing an autographed picture of Mark Twain and we're<br>trying<br>to locate it. I already checked with the collection at the Bancroft Library<br>and they do<br>not have it. Here is the story of how it came into my family:<br><br>My great, grandfather Herman Cornelius Stalberg became the librarian<br>of the Union Club in New York City in May 1893. Apparently Mark Twain came<br>to the Club and met my GG grandfather. One of Twain's daughters was studying<br>vocal music. Twain had some music that was in the wrong key so apparently my<br>GG grandfather - a [...]
2023-12-19T08:47:55-08:00Christian Stalberghttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;7e8e157b.2312BOOK REVIEW: _Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Landon Clemens_, Snedecor
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The following book review was written for the Mark Twain Forum by Kevin Mac<br>Donnell.<br>~~~~~<br><br>_Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens_. Edited by Barbara E.<br>Snedecor. University of Missouri Press, 2023. Pp. 387. Hardcover $55.00.<br>ISBN 9780826222916 (hardcover). ISBN 9780826274922 (ebook).<br><br>Many books reviewed on the Mark Twain Forum are available at discounted<br>prices from the Twain Web Bookstore. Purchases from this site generate<br>commissions that benefit the Mark Twain Project. Please visit <<br>http://www.twainweb.net> [...]
2023-12-10T13:19:28-06:00Barbara Schmidthttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;fd8062f3.2312Re: Fishkin on Antiracist Pedagogy
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WEB Dubois veers a little too far to the left, for me, e.g., arguing that a "general strike" by cotton pickers was critical to defeating the South, but his tack can arguably be seen as a necessary course correction in light of all the pro-slavery "history" that emerged post bellum. We'd have a more sophisticated understanding of our race relations/realities if Black Reconstruction in America had been administered more liberally as an antidote/anecdote to Birth of a Nation and its ilk. [...]
2023-12-07T22:20:25+00:00John Peter Zavezhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;7ea53751.2312Re: Fishkin on Antiracist Pedagogy
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Thanks for the suggestion. I DO have students read parts of Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America in four of the classes—just didn’t have space to list more of what’s on the syllabi...
2023-12-07T17:41:50+00:00Shelley Fisher Fishkinhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;91011fdd.2312Re: Fishkin on Antiracist Pedagogy
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SFF should consider adding excerpts from Black Reconstruction in America so her students are aware that there are data-based arguments more compelling than just the anecdotal … stuff she's currently using.<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mark Twain Forum <TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA> On Behalf Of Matthew Seybold<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 9:16 AM<br>To: TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA<br>Subject: Fishkin on Antiracist Pedagogy [...]
2023-12-07T17:35:29+00:00John Peter Zavezhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;5b350423.2312REMINDER - CALL FOR PAPERS: MARK TWAIN CONFERENCE August 1-3, 2024 – HANNIBAL, MISSOURI
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REMINDER- CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>MARK TWAINCONFERENCE<br><br>August 1-3, 2024 –HANNIBAL, MISSOURI<br><br>The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is hosting its fourthMark Twain Conference in Hannibal, Missouri, August 1-3, 2024. The museum iscalling for papers for presentation at the conference.<br><br> Abstracts for proposals are being accepted immediately throughFebruary 15, 2019. These should be e-mailed in Word format to Henry Sweets at henry.sweets@marktwainmuseum.orgfor review. Abstracts should be 500-750 words in length. Presenters will belimited to a 20-minute presentation at the conference. [...]
2023-12-05T18:52:28+00:00Kevin Bochynskihttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;703d35fb.2312Fishkin on Antiracist Pedagogy
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The Center For Mark Twain Studies is please to publish an open-access,<br>digital edition of this essay which originally appeared in the print<br>journal, *Mark Twain Studies*, produced by our friends at The Japan Society<br>of Mark Twain: https://marktwainstudies.com/unlearningracism/<br><br>In the essay Shelley Fisher Fiskin reveals which Twain texts she has used<br>in her classes over the last decade, and why! [...]
2023-12-05T09:16:17-05:00Matthew Seyboldhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;da58e10c.2312Re: Identifying Jonesborough and El Yuba Dam in Innocents Abroad
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I am very grateful for this link. Thank you Philip. Murray describes<br>two roads between Kefr Hauwar and Damascus and mentions the point where,<br>by tradition, is the place of Saul/Paul's conversion. There is no<br>mention of Al Kiswah or El-Kisweh (Kessoué) as this location, which<br>comes from Strathcarron. I wonder why this second volume never showed up<br>in any of my searches. There is no mention of a village of Christian<br>haters. [...]
2023-11-23T12:25:31-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;d9e194a2.2311Re: Identifying Jonesborough and El Yuba Dam in Innocents Abroad
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Scott,<br><br>It’s from the handbook. There are two volumes to the 1858 edition. On Google Books you can find the second volume at:<br><br>https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Handbook_for_Travellers_in_Syria_and_P/3kNTAAAAcAAJ<br><br>The reference to Kefr Hauwar is on page 450.<br><br>Philip<br><br>> On Nov 22, 2023, at 2:04 PM, Scott Holmes <scott@BSCOTTHOLMES.COM> wrote:<br>><br>> I downloaded the Google Books pdf of Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine; 1858 but can find no reference to Kefr Hawar (using as many spelling variations as I could think up). Being a scanned pdf from an old copy of the book, there may be problems with the character [...]
2023-11-23T14:10:20-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;5c681e4c.2311In Regards to Kefr Hawar
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If anyone, besides myself and Philip, are interested in "Jonesborourgh",<br>the copy of the 1858 tour guide I downloaded is incomplete. When<br>attempting to find a description of the route followed in Murray's guide<br>I discovered that the scanned copy is only "Part One" and does not<br>contain detailed information on the tours. It merely mentions a route<br>between Banias and Damascus. The Baedeker guide, from 1898 is complete<br>but there are no details about Kefr Hawar aside from the fact that it is<br>a common stop between Damascus and Banias. I'm awaiting a hard copy of<br>the 1858 guide [...]
2023-11-23T09:37:56-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;fcabf06b.2311Re: Identifying Jonesborough and El Yuba Dam in Innocents Abroad
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I downloaded the Google Books pdf of Murray's Handbook for Travellers in<br>Syria and Palestine; 1858 but can find no reference to Kefr Hawar (using<br>as many spelling variations as I could think up). Being a scanned pdf<br>from an old copy of the book, there may be problems with the character<br>string. Does this quote of Kefr Hauwar come from a direct reading of<br>the handbook or is it derived from Ganzel's book (which I have not seen<br>but I did read the review by Louis Budd). Mention of Dan De Quille<br>sheds new and significant light on the [...]
2023-11-22T11:04:40-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;16185429.2311Re: Identifying Jonesborough and El Yuba Dam in Innocents Abroad
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I was referring to Dewey Ganzel, in Mark Twain Abroad, pg. 232.<br><br>As for the Yuba Dam story, see: https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2020/08/yuba-dam-once-more/ where folklorist Stephen Winick tracks down the history of the story.<br><br>Philip<br><br>> On Nov 21, 2023, at 1:42 PM, Scott Holmes <scott@BSCOTTHOLMES.COM> wrote:<br>><br>> In answer to Philip Trauring, I would answer that I was probably under the influence of Strathcarron at the time I speculated that Jonestown was “more likely” Quneitra. The past couple of years I’ve tried to be more precise about attributions and added a “References” content type and menu option to Twain’s Geography.<br>><br> [...]
2023-11-22T00:32:43-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;f4a38b49.2311Re: Identifying Jonesborough and El Yuba Dam in Innocents Abroad
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In answer to Philip Trauring, I would answer that I was probably under<br>the influence of Strathcarron at the time I speculated that Jonestown<br>was “more likely” Quneitra. The past couple of years I’ve tried to be<br>more precise about attributions and added a “References” content type<br>and menu option to Twain’s Geography.<br><br>It should be noted that routes to both locations, Kefr Hauwar and<br>Quneitra, are displayed on maps for September 16 and 17^th . My use of<br>KML files to show lines (paths and routes) does not allow much in the<br>way of theming capabilities. Points can easily [...]
2023-11-21T10:42:28-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;37864167.2311Celebrate Livy's Birthday with The MTH's Trouble Begins with Barbara Snedecor
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The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Barbara Snedecor to the Trouble Begins stage to celebrate her new book: "Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens." Steve Courtney will be interviewing Barbara on the process of completing her book and on Olivia Clemens.<br><br>In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice-as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and much more. The frail woman often portrayed by scholars, biographers, and Twain himself is largely [...]
2023-11-21T15:19:26+00:00Jodi DeBruynehttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;d37ed5b5.2311Identifying Jonesborough and El Yuba Dam in Innocents Abroad
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On the Twain’s Geography site, for Sept 16, 1867, it says “It seems more likely that, rather than Kefr Hauwar, then pilgrims traveled to Al Qunaitra, Jonesborough."<br><br>Is this based on Strathcarron’s identification of Jonesborough as Quneitra?<br><br>Ganzel identifies it as Kefr Hauwar, pointing out that the guidebooks mention the town was believed to have had the tomb of Nimrod, although they discounted it. [...]
2023-11-20T18:08:42-05:00Philip Trauringhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;c2d51fef.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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><br>><br>> Kipling was published, but not especially celebrated yet, at the time the<br>> met in Elmira.<br><br>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling_bibliography
2023-11-20T08:47:26-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;acde44b1.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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I, too, have ordered a copy of "God's Arbiters..." It's my understanding<br>that Twain initially supported America's intervention in the Philippines<br>and only became disenchanted when America decided to take control<br>there. Reading through Gribben's entries on Kipling, there seems to be<br>no further mention of this poem. I'm wondering if Twain did mention it<br>at one time or another. Kipling was an imperialist, at least in terms<br>of the British Empire and this poem does have this flavor - as<br>recognized by Roosevelt. As Gribben notes Kipling favored conscription<br>for the Boer Wars, which surprised Twain. But Kipling may [...]
2023-11-20T00:19:53-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;adaa8deb.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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I am flattered! —s<br><br>Susan K. Harris<br><br>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 7:52 PM, John R. Pascal <000000811a341709-dmarc-request@yorku.ca> wrote:<br>><br>> Ordered as well, Susan!<br>> John Pascal<br>><br>>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Harris, Susan Kumin <skh5@KU.EDU> wrote:<br>>><br>>> 😊Enjoy!<br>>> Susan K. Harris<br>>><br>>><br>>>>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 3:10 PM, Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> Ordered!<br>>>><br>>>> DDD<br>>>><br>>>>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 3:02 PM Harris, Susan Kumin <skh5@ku.edu> wrote:<br>>>>><br>>>>> Scott, there’s a whole chapter on this poem in my book “God’s Arbiters:<br>>>>> The U.S. [...]
2023-11-20T00:53:05+00:00Harris, Susan Kuminhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e3ef4261.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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Ordered as well, Susan!<br>John Pascal<br><br>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Harris, Susan Kumin <skh5@KU.EDU> wrote:<br>><br>> 😊Enjoy!<br>> Susan K. Harris<br>><br>><br>>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 3:10 PM, Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Ordered!<br>>><br>>> DDD<br>>><br>>>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 3:02 PM Harris, Susan Kumin <skh5@ku.edu> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> Scott, there’s a whole chapter on this poem in my book “God’s Arbiters:<br>>>> The U.S. and the Philippines, 1898-1902. The War that Sparked Mark Twain’s<br>>>> Conflict with his Country.”<br>>>><br>>>> Susan K. Harris<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>>><br> [...]
2023-11-19T19:47:16-05:00John R. Pascalhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;356e0de9.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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May I also suggest reading “An Interview with Mark Twain” written by Rudyard Kipling in 1890 after his journey from India to Elmira in 1889 to conduct this interview.<br><br>It can be found in Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s The Mark Twain Anthology Great Writers on His Life and Works published by The Library of America in 2010. [...]
2023-11-19T19:44:08-05:00John R. Pascalhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;99c38cde.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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And I wrote about Twain and Kipling, too.<br><br>- In the Mirror of the Imagination: Mark Twain's Kipling<br>- Gregg Camfield<br><https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=search&query=author:Gregg%20Camfield:and&min=1&max=10&t=query_term><br>- Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and<br>Theory <https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/311><br>- University of Arizona<br><https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=browse&limit=publisher_id:69><br>- Volume 61, Number 1, Spring 2005 <https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/23726><br>- pp. 85-107<br><br>On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 12:07 PM Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com><br>wrote: [...]
2023-11-19T12:43:41-08:00Gregg Camfieldhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;a070f480.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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😊Enjoy!<br>Susan K. Harris<br><br>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 3:10 PM, Dave Davis <daviddanieldavis@gmail.com> wrote:<br>><br>> Ordered!<br>><br>> DDD<br>><br>>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 3:02 PM Harris, Susan Kumin <skh5@ku.edu> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Scott, there’s a whole chapter on this poem in my book “God’s Arbiters:<br>>> The U.S. and the Philippines, 1898-1902. The War that Sparked Mark Twain’s<br>>> Conflict with his Country.”<br>>><br>>> Susan K. Harris<br>>><br>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>
2023-11-19T20:39:16+00:00Harris, Susan Kuminhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;bce34813.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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Ordered!<br><br>DDD<br><br>On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 3:02 PM Harris, Susan Kumin <skh5@ku.edu> wrote:<br><br>> Scott, there’s a whole chapter on this poem in my book “God’s Arbiters:<br>> The U.S. and the Philippines, 1898-1902. The War that Sparked Mark Twain’s<br>> Conflict with his Country.”<br>><br>> Susan K. Harris<br>><br>><br>> ><br>> ><br>>
2023-11-19T15:05:26-05:00Dave Davishttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;a8e74e1a.2311Re: Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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Scott, there’s a whole chapter on this poem in my book “God’s Arbiters: The U.S. and the Philippines, 1898-1902. The War that Sparked Mark Twain’s Conflict with his Country.”<br><br>Susan K. Harris<br><br>> On Nov 19, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Scott Holmes <scott@bscottholmes.com> wrote:<br>><br>> I’ve been caught up in Twain’s interest in Rudyard Kipling, especially Alan Gribben’s 9 page entry on Kipling. Gribben remarks that in 1908 Twain marked the poem titles from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling but “It might be noted that in marking these titles he skipped over page 215, “The White Man's Burden,”.<br>><br>> [...]
2023-11-19T19:59:55+00:00Harris, Susan Kuminhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;fdb47d17.2311Kipling's White Man's Burden and Twain
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I’ve been caught up in Twain’s interest in Rudyard Kipling, especially<br>Alan Gribben’s 9 page entry on Kipling. Gribben remarks that in 1908<br>Twain marked the poem titles from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling but<br>“It might be noted that in marking these titles he skipped over page<br>215, “The White Man's Burden,”.<br><br>From the American Social History website, I found this synopsis of the<br>poem: [...]
2023-11-19T11:45:29-08:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;27a03af2.2311A major publication
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Greetings all -- I 'm sure a review of Barbara Snedecor's Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens, will be posted here soon but I just wanted to second, in true trumpet tones, what Susan Harris says on the back cover: "High time Livy was granted her own voice!"<br><br>The book that Barb -- the beloved and energetic director emeritus of the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies -- has been working on for a decade or more is finally out. It is an extraordinary and comprehensive work, bringing this important figure into full view for a general audience [...]
2023-11-19T16:37:55+00:00Steve Courtneyhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;3325843c.2311Park/ Historic Site Specialist - 7020808 Florida, MO
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N.B.: I am posting this call for candidates on behalf of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks. Interested candidates should directly contact the persons listed at the end of this message. Kevin B.<br><br>Park/ Historic Site Specialist - 7020808<br>Florida, MO<br>Natural and Cultural Resources<br>Department of Natural Resources<br>State Parks [...]
2023-11-15T15:50:05+00:00Kevin Bochynskihttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;b6b44fd9.2311Mark Twain and Bram Stoker
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Hi, list members.<br><br>Not sure if anyone saw this post (which popped up in my LinkedIn feed) from<br>the New York Public Library covering correspondence between Twain and Bram<br>Stoker.<br><br>Michael<br><br>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nypl_nypldigitalcollections-activity-7128091920752349185-fw2c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
2023-11-11T01:55:55+00:00Michael Torregrossa, Medieval in Popular Culturehttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;94eff516.2311Re: Adaptation article on Becky Thatcher
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The final book of "Jim’s Journey Homeward," a trilogy written by Mark Time, covers Tom, Huck and Johnny as young men during the time leading up to and into the Civil War. Becky plays a minor role as she goes South with her family and their slaves at the outbreak. But her influence is felt throughout because she has learned that she can never marry Tom for reasons Aunt Polly will only hint at to Jim, leaving Tom more desirous than ever of gaining glory on the battlefield no matter what the cost to himself, his friends and his family. [...]
2023-11-07T22:14:08+00:00John Peter Zavezhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;49fd9558.2311Recording of "The Story of the Bad Little Boy"
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Inspired by the latest Mark Twain Journal, I recorded "The Story of the Bad<br>Little Boy" here:<br><br>https://ramblingnotesofageezer.substack.com/p/mark-twains-the-story-of-the-bad
2023-11-07T10:24:10-08:00B. Clay Shannonhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;1a782116.2311Adaptation article on Becky Thatcher
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I'm a bit of a reader on this list rather than a poster. But I want to<br>thank the list members for their input on my recent publication of the<br>article below. The journal wants me to share the link, too!<br><br>“Becky Thatcher’s Literary Half-life: Appropriating Mark Twain’s Good Girl<br><https://academic.oup.com/adaptation/advance-article/doi/10.1093/adaptation/apad030/7274963?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=adaptation&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=2f5ce895-46d4-44c4-9f70-83fd421ef22a>.”<br>In *Adaptation*, from Oxford Press.
2023-11-06T18:32:21-05:00Shannon, Edwardhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;55c9673b.2311MTH&M Trouble Begins: Wednesday 11/08
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The Mark Twain House & Museum is pleased to announce the rescheduled date to welcome Chessie Monks-Kelly to the Trouble Begins stage for her lecture: The House that Trudeau Built: The Development of the "Fresh Air" Treatment for Tuberculosis.<br><br>Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau came to the Adirondacks expecting to die of consumption, or tuberculosis; his recovery led to a booming health industry that lasted 70 years and brought close to 100,000 people to the mountains seeking a cure. Trudeau arrived in Saranac Lake from New York City in 1873, and dedicated the rest of his life to understanding, treating, and [...]
2023-11-06T17:06:12+00:00Jodi DeBruynehttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;a52c72a8.2311Elmira College ok???
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Katie and I visited Elmira college a few weeks ago and were treated to<br>finding and absorbing lots of Mark Twain Memorabilia!!<br>It was a real thrill to see the displays, to visit the cemetery and drive<br>by Quarry farm!! As well as to look into Twain’s circular study, on campus.<br>I got to sit by him in the admissions office!! [...]
2023-10-31T11:37:39-04:00John Greenmanhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;fff22fb6.23102024 Quarry Farm Fellowships
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Dear Mark Twain Forum Members,<br><br>This is a friendly reminder that the application deadline for the 2024<br>Quarry Farm Fellowships is Thursday, November 30, 2023.<br><br>All information about the Quarry Farm Fellowship Program can be found at<br>MarkTwainStudies.org.<br><br>The Center for Mark Twain Studies offers eleven residencies in 2024 at<br>Quarry Farm to any scholar, writer, or artist working in the field of Mark<br>Twain Studies at any career stage, giving fellows the opportunity to work<br>on academic and creative projects at Quarry Farm. [...]
2023-10-31T11:02:11-04:00Joseph Lemakhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;4ae9031a.2310Recent Addition to Twain's Geography Site
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For those of you that are interested I've added a new menu option to my<br>project, "RSS". This is a news feed that can be accessed via a number<br>of programs including the Thunderbird Mail reader. There is also a menu<br>option on the top bar of the site labeled "RSS". The feed will display<br>a page of "teasers" for entries made or modified in the last month. I'm<br>constantly working on this site but seldom announcing any changes to<br>it. I've been sifting through books by Scharnhorst, Gribben and others<br>as well as Fears' Day By Day. The list [...]
2023-10-26T10:43:34-07:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;f0f0b713.2310Mark Twain House & Museum's Trouble Begins TOMORROW
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The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Robert Engel to the Trouble Begins stage for his lecture: Lurking, There, in the Underbrush: The Gilded Age in the Adirondacks.<br><br>In Gilded Age America, more than now, new cultural trends were lifted to prominence by America’s wealthiest families. The descending strata of society would soon emulate those above. Except what, pray tell, were the Vanderbilts of Fifth Avenue doing deep in the piney woods? Robert Engel’s lecture will examine how and why the Adirondacks became a stage for 19th-century America’s growing regard for its remaining wild places. We will look inside the [...]
2023-10-24T23:42:33+00:00Jodi DeBruynehttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e1f87657.2310Re: Richard E. Burton and Webster & Co
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Captain Burton's "City of the Saints" is not heavily noticed in California. The Sacramento Daily Union, the California paper that was most read in western Nevada Territory in those years, carried a three-fourths column outtake from the book in the February 28, 1862 issue, and two months later (April 19) refers to having already carried a review of the book. It is quoted a few times in correspondence from Salt Lake City to the Union, but I don't find it gaining much notice in the Union, and none in any of the other papers on the California Digital Newspaper Collection [...]
2023-10-24T18:56:56+00:00<>https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;72dd6d5d.2310Re: Richard E. Burton and Webster & Co
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Sigh, with just a bit of research in Alan Gribben's astounding reference<br>volume I found Richard E. Burton, son of Nathaniel Judson Burton. And,<br>following that is an entry for Richard Francis Burton: "Personal<br>Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca" reportedly signed by<br>Clemens. I still wonder why Sam was apparently unaware of Burton's<br>"City of the Saints" first published in the US by Harper and Brothers in<br>1862. [...]
2023-10-23T23:08:41-07:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;38f13820.2310Mark Twain House's Trouble Begins TONIGHT
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Join us on Wednesday, October 11th as The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Donna Harrington-Lueker to the Trouble Begins stage to talk about her book: Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading<br><br>From Newport to Bar Harbor and Long Branch to Chautauqua, 19th-century summer vacationers did more than promenade on boardwalks or bathe at the shore. Primed by a publishing industry seeking new markets-and authors seeking new readers-vacationers increasingly indulged in a phenomenon we today call "summer reading" or "the beach read." Drawing on publishing records, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, [...]
2023-10-11T14:29:16+00:00Jodi DeBruynehttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;ae21135.2310Re: American Humor
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Perhaps he meant in comparison with other times and/or other places at that<br>time. Hordes from Europe didn't emigrate to America because they hated<br>their homeland, many of them were starving where they were with little<br>prospect for improvement.<br><br>On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 5:24 PM Scott Holmes <scott@bscottholmes.com> wrote:<br><br>> There is an entry in Day By Day that has left me a bit befuddled. It<br>> seems in contrast to his comments on, among other things, Labor Unions<br>> and Civil Rights. This from July 13, 1888, in a letter that Fears notes<br>> was not finished until [...]
2023-10-10T17:29:29-07:00B. Clay Shannonhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;306da381.2310American Humor
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There is an entry in Day By Day that has left me a bit befuddled. It<br>seems in contrast to his comments on, among other things, Labor Unions<br>and Civil Rights. This from July 13, 1888, in a letter that Fears notes<br>was not finished until October 31^st .<br><br>/The thing called American humor is misnamed; it has no patent, it is<br>not peculiar, it is mere human humor, with the pressure lifted off, its<br>chains broken, its spirit set free. Only once, in the world’s history,<br>have we seen a nation enjoying these several things all at the same<br> [...]
2023-10-10T17:23:01-07:00Scott Holmeshttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;e9b2b3c7.2310Re: A Skeptic's Progress
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This book was published in 2010 by Isaac Gewirtz, the<br>curator of the Berg Collection of American Literature at<br>the New York Public Library. It showcases the Berg's rich<br>holdings of Mark Twain materials, as well as those of<br>the Morgan Library. It's wonderfully illustrated with pages<br>of the manuscript from *Following the Equator* and some<br>original images for that book by Dan Beard. I highly<br>recommend it. [...]
2023-10-10T12:52:19-04:00Kerry Driscollhttps://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TWAIN-L;ef3cf757.2310