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Mark Twain's sketch “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once" originally appeared in the "Memoranda" section of The Galaxy [...]
There were many anecdotes about Mark Twain - some inspired by his own writing or interviews he gave, some entirely made up or resulting out of misunderstandings in the press. Some of these stories [...]
The Anti-Imperialist League was formed in 1898 in response to the increasingly expansionist foreign policies of the United States. Its membership was diverse, including Republicans, Democrats, [...]
Towards the End of the 20th century, there was an increasing number of American doctors staying in Germany to further their study of medicine and some of them founded the Association of American [...]
"The Awful German Language" was originally published as "Appendix D" of A Tramp Abroad in 1880 (601-619). The text was widely [...]
During their extensive stay in Europe, Mark Twain, his wife, and their daughters Clara and Jean took up residence in [...]
Clemens visited Bermuda several times throughout his life and twice in 1908. The trip that fits the time frame of the article is his stay at the Princess Hotel from 27 Jan.-3 March. He was [...]
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 [...]
"Concerning the Jews" was first published in Harper's Magazine (99:592, 527–535). The text was not as widely discussed in the [...]
"Diplomatic Pay and Clothes", a critical discussion of US diplomats' financial situation in Europe, was first published in The Forum [...]
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 [...]
The sketch "An Encounter with an Interviewer" was first published in the collection Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches [...]
"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 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays [...]
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 [...]
In 1891, Clemens agreed with the New York Sun to write six travel letters during his stay in Europe (Rasmussen et al. 2:813). [...]
The story of Jim Blaine attempting to tell a story while repeatedly getting off track was originally included as an episode of Roughing It [...]
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 [...]
Mark Twain gave a speech introducing Genral Hawley at the Republican Meeting in Elmira, New York, on 16th October, 1879 [...]
Mark Twain’s letter was dated July 22, 1876. A transcribed and annotated version is available from the Mark Twain Project (UCCL01350). The [...]
On October 3rd 1902, Mark Twain sent a letter to the secretary of the treasury in which Twain requested to be send winter fuel - in the form of treasury bonds, bank notes, etc.. The letter soon [...]
This short sketch by Mark Twain appeared in several American daily newspapers beginning in February 1873. Most newspapers printed the sketch under the heading "Making a Fortune"; however, the [...]
“Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning” (1880) is the second of three McWilliams family stories which appeared between 1875 and 1882. It first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in September 1880 [...]
Mark Twain’s short story “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,” was first published in 1893 in the Century Magazine (45:3, 338-346). [...]
The North American Review - founded in 1815 - is the oldest literary magazine in the USA and is still published today (see [...]
A report on the burglary was published in the New York Times ("Burglars Invade Mark Twain Villa," 19 Sept. 1908) and Barbara Schmidt provides a [...]
Samuel L. Clemens started using the pen name "Mark Twain" in 1863 (see Rasmussen et al. 2:774). Its first known appearance was in a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The sketch “Running for Governor” was originally published in the Buffalo Express in November 1870 and in The Galaxy in December 1870 [...]
Mark Twain's text "Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth", a sarcastic and critical welcome to the new millenium, was origianlly published in the New York Herald, 30 Dec. [...]
On 15th November 1895, Mark Twain held a speech at the Savage Club in Christchurch, New Zealand. A version of the speech can be found in Mark Twain Speaking [...]
Mark Twain’s “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” is a polemical article which appeared in the North American Review in 1901 [...]
A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers (Paine 2:923) and which appeared as “Switzerland, The Cradle of [...]
Mark Twain's speech on "The Babies" was delivered on 13th November 1879 during a Reunion Banquet of the Army of the Tennessee in Chicago. For the full text see Mark Twain Speaking [...]