Mark Twain Speaking

721 Pages·2006·36.365 MB·English

by  Paul Fatout

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MARK TWAIN
SPEAKING

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MARI( TWAIN
SPEAI(ING
Edited by
PAUL FATOUT
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright © 1976 by the University of Iowa Press
Previously unpublished Mark Twain material
© 1976 by Thomas G. Chamberlain and Manufacturers,
Hanover Trust Company, Trustees under the
Will of Clara Clemens Samossoud
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All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any
form or by any means without permission in writing from
the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to
contact copyright holders of material used in this book.
The publisher would be pleased to make suitable
arrangements with any whom it has not been possible
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Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Twain, Mark, 1835–1910.
Mark Twain speaking / edited by Paul Fatout.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-10: 1-58729-468-0 (pbk.),
ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-468-6 (pbk.)
1. Speeches, addresses, etc., American. I. Fatout, Paul.
II. Title.
PS1302.F3 2006 2006044605
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For permission to use copyrighted material, acknowledgment is made to
Harper & Row for the following from Mark Twain's Speeches (1923): "On
Speech-MakingReform,""OnAfter-DinnerSpeaking,""OnAdam,""Advice
to Youth," "Speech," "Turncoats,""ATribute," "Yale CollegeSpeech," "On
ForeignCritics,""IntroducingDoctorVanDyke,"andfrom pp.xv-xviofthe
IntroductionbyAlbertBig€low Paine; for"HisGrandfather'sOldRam"from
MarkTwaininEruption; andforexcerptsfromMarkTwain'sAutobiography,The
LoveLettersofMark Twain, Mark Twain'sNotebook, andMyFatherMark Twain.
Forpermissiontouseunpublished MarkTwainitems, acknowledgmentis
made to the Mark Twain Company for the following manuscripts: "Bishop
Speech," "On the Three Great Laws to be Observed in the Treatment of
Bright's Disease," "Christening Yarn," "Speech Introducing Winston
Churchill," "De Woman Wid De Gold'n Arm," "Lecture Notes for 'Inno
cents,' " and an untitled MS on printers and printing; for autobiographical
dictations of December 28, 1906, "The Long Clam"; August 28, 1906,
Fellowcraft Club; and August 28, 1906, Speech-making Experiment; for
excerpts on General Grant and Vienna from Notebooks 15 and 32; for
revisions of"Punch, Brothers, Punch,"The Stolen WhiteElephant (1882), and
partofChapter XVI ofHuckleberry Finn, Tauchnitz ed. (1885); and the first
paragraph of Mark Twain's letter to the New York Press Club, June 1,
1869.
Mark Twain at"Stormfield,"Redding, Connecticut. A holographnoteaccompany
ingthe photograph reads, "From home ofLaura Frazier(Becky Thatcher-QfMark
Twainfame) & wasamongherthings & wastaken onhertriptoStormfieldin 1908
(picture was taken by herorbyherdaughterat that time)." Thephotograph is in the
SpecialCollectionssectionofThe University ofIowaLibraries, agiftofPhilipAdler.
Mark Twain Speaking
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Contents
Introduction XV
Acknowledgments XXIX
Selection ofTexts XXX
Abbreviations XXX
1 Presentation Speech 1
2 Sandwich Islands Lecture 4
3 Concluding Remarks 16
4 Address to the Czar 18
5 Woman-The Pride ofAny Profession 20
6 Pilgrim Life 23
7 Introductory Remarks 25
8 The American Vandal Abroad 27
9 Concluding Remarks 37
10 The Reliable Contraband 38
11 Artemus Ward Lecture 41
12 Roughing It Lecture 48
13 On GovernorJames W. Nye 64
14 Aldine Dinner 65
15 Savage Club 69
16 Whitefriars Club 72
17 MeetingofAmericans 74
18 The Ladies 78
19 The Guests 82
20 Introducingthe Reverend Charles Kingsley 83
21 Massachusetts Press Association 85
22 Curtain Speech 87
23 Insurance Dinner 89
24 Curtain Speech 92
25 Spelling Match 94
26 Republican Mass Meeting 97
27 The Weather ofNew England 100
28 Curtain Speech 103
29 PutnamPhalanx 106
30 Whittier Birthday Dinner 110