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A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/BF6Z2ZNX/ Paine 2:923]) and which appeared as “Switzerland, The Cradle of Liberty” in the Twain collection ''What Is Man? And Other Essays'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/JXA6U5MI 1917, 193-208]). The article was published under different titles in several American newspapers, including ''The Pittsburg Dispatch'' which claimed that it was “Written for the Dispatch” ([https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1892-03-06/ed-1/seq-11/ “Clock of the Ages,” 6 March 1892, 11]). On the same day, ''The Omaha Daily Bee'' printed the text as “[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1892-03-06/ed-1/seq-10/ The Cradle of Liberty. By Mark Twain” (6 March 1892,10)].

A digital version of the typescript of the text with additional pencil sketches, holograph inscriptions, and explanations is available via the New York Public Library Digital Collections (Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "The Cradle of Liberty. Typescript with pencil sketches with holograph inscriptions and explanations." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1892. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/afd13ce0-f139-012f-9872-58d385a7b928).

Barbara Schmidt’s ''Twainquotes'' has a [http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/March1892.html transcript] of the article as it appeared in the Chicago ''Daily Tribune'' on March 6, 1892.

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