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• 11:11, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Category:Topic Works (Created page with "All available pages that feature contextual information on works by Mark Twain. Topic Pages link back to relevant Article Pages with the original newspaper material, transcriptions, and translations. A similar compilation of pages in this category (with some additional information on each entry) can be found on the Overview of Topics page.")
• 10:56, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Encounter Interviewer (Created page with "The sketch "An Encounter with an Interviewer" was first published in the collection ''Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/RJTBVH7W 1878]). Translations for publication in the German-language press were altered and shortened substantially. {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"An Encounter with an Interviewer"}} {{DEFAULTSORT:An Encounter with an Interviewer}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works...")
• 10:46, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page German Chicago (Created page with "In 1891, Clemens agreed with the New York ''Sun'' to write six travel letters during his stay in Europe ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP/ Rasmussen et al. 2:813]). His report on Berlin, the last in the series, was published in the New York [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1892-04-03/ed-1/seq-24/ ''Sun'' , April 2, 1892]. On the same day, the Chicago ''Daily Tribune'' release a version of the text as “The Chicago of E...")
• 10:44, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Virchow birthday pittsburgh dispatch 03 04 1892.png
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• 10:42, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:German chicago london illustrated news 1892.jpg
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• 10:36, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page First Lie (Created page with "The humorous story "My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It" was first published in ''New York World'', 10 Dec. 1899. It was later collected in, among others, ''The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/B7A5RW6G/ 1900]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It"}} {{DEFAULTSORT:My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Wor...")
• 10:30, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Diplomatic Pay (Created page with ""Diplomatic Pay and Clothes", a critical discussion of US diplomats' financial situation in Europe, was first published in ''The Forum'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/765C56IV/ March 1899, 24-32]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} {{DEFAULTSORT:}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
• 10:23, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Concerning Jews (Created page with ""Concerning the Jews" was first published in ''Harper's Magazine'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/M2JJZU7H/ 99:592, 527–535]). The text was not as widely discussed in the press as some other of his works, but the articles which commented on it did so in depth. {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Concerning the Jews"}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Concerning the Jews}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
• 10:10, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Chapters Autobiography (Created page with "Mark Twain's "Chapters from My Autobiography" was originally a series of 25 articles in the North American Review which ran initially from September 1906 to December 1907. The first installment was published on 7 Sep. 1906 ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/ZCNWMZUH/ 183:598, 321-330]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Chapters from My Autobiography"}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapters from My Autobiography}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Wor...")
• 09:47, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Awful German Language (Created page with ""The Awful German Language" was originally published as "Appendix D" of ''A Tramp Abroad'' in 1880 ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/IPNS2B3K 601-619]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Awful German Language"}} {{DEFAULTSORT:The Awful German Language}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
• 09:31, 4 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Agricultural Paper (Created page with "Mark Twain's sketch “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once" originally appeared in the "Memoranda" section of ''The Galaxy'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/UPA4Q2FM/ 10:1, 133-135]). It was later republished repeatedly, for example in the collection ''Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/ISRGITWP/ 1875]) with added illustrations. {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"How I Edited an Agric...")
• 09:27, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Redding/Stormfield (Created page with "“Stormfield” was Samuel Clemens’ last permanent home and located just outside the town of Redding in Connecticut. The house was designed by John Mead Howells; Clara Langdon Clemens and Isabel Lyon, Clemens secretary at that point in time, oversaw the interior furnishing and decorating (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP/ Rasmussen et al. 2:903]). Clemens himself did not want to see the house until it was complete and ready for...")
• 09:24, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Stormfield paine biography.jpg
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• 09:20, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Redding (Created page with "In 1906, Samuel Clemens bought land in the vicinity of the town Redding in Connecticut. The purchase was made without Clemens having seen the property beforehand as he was eager to strike an apparent bargain (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:852]). Albert Bigelow Paine, a close friend of Clemens’, had previously bought land in the same area and this quickly convinced Clemens to invest as well (see [https://www.zot...")
• 09:16, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Quaker City Excursion (Created page with "The Quaker City Excursion was an American pleasure cruise and educational excursion to the Mediterranean and back that took place in 1867. “Quaker City” was the name of the steamship used for the cruise. Clemens participated in the excursion as a newspaper correspondent for the ''San Francisco Alta California'' and therefore did not have to pay the $1,250 per-person fare (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:845])...")
• 09:15, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Quaker city boys life.jpg
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• 09:11, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Plasmon (Created page with "The main product sold by the Plasmon Company was also called “Plasmon”, a skim milk powder that was supposed to restore general health and which Samuel L. Clemens encountered first during his stay in Vienna in 1898/1899 (see Wilson and Rees in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/XK78JK3N/ LeMaster and Wilson, ''The Routledge Encyclopedia''] 108-112; and [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/8C2D7CMK/ Ober 169]). There were a...")
• 09:05, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page North American Review (Created page with "The ''North American Review'' - founded in 1815 - is the oldest literary magazine in the USA and is still published today (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/RMCSBZVE/ "History, North American Review"]). In addition to To the Person Sitting in Darkness this periodical also published Mark Twain’s Chapters from My Autobiography a collection of autobiographical dictations. The texts were collected and re-published later in different forma...")
• 09:01, 26 August 2025 KB talk contribs deleted page Template:TopicInformation
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• 14:52, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Heidelberg/Schloss-Hotel (Created page with "Until now, German newspapers, even with digital reproductions available, have provided little assistance in reconstructing Clemens’s [visit to Heidelberg]. It appears that there is only a single reference to the presence of the prominent visitor in Heidelberg. The ''Heidelberger Zeitung'' printed a list of newly arrived visitors (“Fremdenliste”) in the city, including the line “Hotel Schrieder [...] Clemans [sic] und Fam. a. New-York” (7 May, 1878, 4). File:...")
• 14:48, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Heidelberg schlosshotel birdcage.jpg
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• 14:42, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Heidelberg schlosshotel rev wuerzburger 1875.jpg
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• 14:19, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Heidelberg schlosshotel adv frankfurter 1875.png
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• 14:11, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Heidelberg (Created page with "Samuel Clemens arrived in Heidelberg on April 22, 1878. It was the first extended stay on his trip through Europe during the years 1878-1879. He was accompanied by his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, his two daughters Susy (6 years old) and Clara (3 years old), Olivia’s friend Clara Spaulding, and the German nursemaid Rosina Hay ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/2ERH5HZF/ N&J2, 43]). Ther...")
• 14:05, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Hotel schrieder adv murray 1878.png
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• 14:02, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:Heidelberg schlosshotel card.jpg
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• 11:43, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Funeral (Created page with "After his death on 21 April 1910, Samuel Clemens’ body was transported by railway from his home in Redding, Ct., to New York City. On 23 April, a funeral procession and a memorial service at Brick Church took place; the service was conducted by Henry Van Dyke and Joseph Hopkins Twichell (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rassmussen et. al. 2:663]). The public crowded the church for a last opportunity to see the famous Mark Twain...")
• 11:41, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:MT funeral NY Elmira.jpg
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• 11:36, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page File:MT funeral viewing.jpg
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• 11:29, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Elmira/Woodlawn Cemetery (Created page with "Clemens and “all members of his immediate family” ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:945]) are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in [Elmira, N.Y.]. The cemetery has been in use since 1858. A virtual tour of Woodlawn Cemetery with an interactive map of notable burials is available from the [https://marktwainstudies.com/take-a-virtual-tour-of-woodlawn-cemetery-resting-place-of-mark-twain/ Center for Mark Twain Studies]. Je...")
• 11:13, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Elmira/Quarry Farm (Created page with "Situated just outside Elmira, N.Y., Quarry Farm was the permanent home of Olivia Langdon Clemens’ sister, Susan Langdon Crane, and her husband Theodore. The Clemens family spent most summers between 1871 and 1889 at Quarry Farm and the Cranes had a private study built for Clemens, the “octagonal study”, where he worked on many of his stories (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:849-850]). File:Quarry_farm....")
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• 11:05, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Elmira (Created page with "Elmira, N.Y., was the home of Olivia Langdon Clemens' family and the Langdon family home was the place where Olivia and Samuel Clemens got married in 1870. During the summers, the Clemens family frequently visited Quarry Farm - just outside of Elmira - where Olivia Clemens' sister, Susan Langdon Crane, lived (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:678]). Elmira became a central part of the family's lives and Clemens'...")
• 10:44, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Berlin/Englisches Haus (Created page with "Located adjacent to Gendarmenmarkt, at Mohrenstraße 49, “das Englische Haus” was a very fashionable private dining establishment in Berlin. It was originally owned and operated by Adolf Huster, who held the title of “‘Hof-Traiteur Seiner Majestät des Kaisers und Königs’ [Cook to his Majesty the Kaiser and King], an official title granted by the Kaiser” (Rabelais Inc. 15). After Huster's retirement, ownership changed into the hands of Max Huster and Ernst...")
• 10:39, 25 August 2025 KB talk contribs created page Henry Van Dyke (Created page with "Henry Van Dyke was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pa.. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, he spent a few years in Europe, studying and travelling (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/8RQX4RHN "Henry Van Dyke" 20]). In 1883 he was called as pastor to the Presbyterian Brick Church in New York. He was a prolific writer of novels, essays, poetry, and theological treatieses (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtx...")