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From Mark Twain in the German Language Press
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Entries for works by Mark Twain; sorted alphabetically.
The sketch "An Encounter with an Interviewer" was first published in the collection Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches [...]
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 [...]
The story of Jim Blaine attempting to tell a story while repeatedly getting off track was originally included as an episode of Roughing It [...]
Mark Twain's sketch “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once" originally appeared in the "Memoranda" section of The Galaxy [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers (Paine 2:923) and which appeared as “Switzerland, The Cradle of [...]
"The Awful German Language" was originally published as "Appendix D" of A Tramp Abroad in 1880 (601-619). The text was widely [...]
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 [...]
In 1891, Clemens agreed with the New York Sun to write six travel letters during his stay in Europe (Rasmussen et al. 2:813). [...]
Mark Twain’s short story “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,” was first published in 1893 in the Century Magazine (45:3, 338-346). [...]
Mark Twain’s “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” is a polemical article which appeared in the North American Review in 1901 [...]
Mark Twain delivered this speech on 22nd December 1882 at the annual dinner of the New England Society of New York.
The text of the speech can be found in Mark Twain Speaking [...]
Entries for places; sorted alphabetically.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An index of people; sorted alphabetically by last name.
Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu (1847-1902) worked as a translator and correspondent for various national and international newspapers and used her travels through Southern Europe as material for [...]
Hans Blum was born on 8th June 1841 in Leipzig. He worked as a lawyer, journalist and writer, and wrote for (among others) the literary magazines Daheim and Grenzboten. He died on 1st Feb. [...]
Charles. L. Brookheim was a New York lawyer who worked on bankruptcy cases, usually as official receiver/trustee. He was responsible for assessing the bankrupt company’s assets and income and for [...]
Clara Clemens was born on 8 June 1874 on Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y., and the second daughter of Samuel L. Clemens and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. Compared to her sisters, [...]
Jane Lampton (Jean) Clemens was Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon Clemens’ third and youngest daughter. She was born on 26 July 1880 on Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y., and named after [...]
Olivia (Livy) Louise Langdon was born on 27 Nov. 1845 in Elmira, N.Y., as the second child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon. Her father was a wealthy man who owned a flourishing coal business [...]
Olivia Susan (Susy) Clemens was born 19 March 1872 in Elmira, N.Y., and Samuel and Olivia Langdon Clemens’ oldest daughter. She was called Susy by her family.
As a child, she began writing [...]
Samuel Eastman was pastor at Elmira's Park Church. His wife, Annis Ford Eastman, shared his position and was one of the first female ministers in the US (see [...]
Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born on 7 Feb. 1878 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Aged ten and considered a child prodigy, he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and later took [...]
Almira Russell Hancock's book Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock (1887) was published by Mark Twain’s publishing firm, [...]
Lucy Hayes was born Lucy Ware Webb on 28th August 1831 in Chillicothe, OH. She married Rutherford B. Hayes in December 1852 who was elected US president in 1877. Lucy Hayes was the first woman to be [...]
Ernst Otto Hopp (1841-1910) was a German-born educator, journalist, editor, translator, and author with a keen interest in the United States. He was born and raised in Germany and received his [...]
Anna Kirchstein was a writer, poet, and translator from Germany who later moved to the US. On the occasion of Kirchstein's 70th birthday in 1918, a newspaper article praises the poet for her work as [...]
Charles Langdon was born on 13 August 1849. He was Olivia Langdon's younger brother and Samuel Clemens' brother-in-law.
Samuel Clemens and Charles Langdon met during the [...]
Otto Lecher was an Austrian politician and member of the Austrian "Abgeordnetenhaus".
During Mark Twain's visit to the Austrian Parliament on 28th October 1897, [...]
Friedrich Mähliss (alternative spelling: Mähliß) was a German language teacher and writer who - in 1892 - published a 23-page brochure entitled Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache [...]
Edward Warren Ordway was a lawyer and political activist who served as secretary for the Anti-Imperialist League of New York from 1899 until 1904. He was also a part of the Filipino Progress [...]
William Walter Phelps was an American politician who was appointed by President Harrison to represent the United States in Germany at the International Congress on the Samoan Question in 1889. He was [...]
Schmid’s novel Der Habermeister was reprinted in serialized form in the German American newspaper Der Westbote (Columbus, Ohio), beginning on [...]
August Siemering (1830–1883) was a writer, editor, judge, political leader, and publisher of the San Antonio Freie Presse für Texas. Born and educated in Germany, Siemering emigrated to the [...]
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving office from 1909 to 1913. He was born 15th Sep. 1857 and died 8th March 1930.
Joseph Hopkins Twichell was born on 27 May 1838 in Southington, CT. He was a chaplain in the New York State Infantry during the Civil War, an experience that shaped his views and his work as a pastor [...]
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 [...]