by admin | May 2, 2025 | Twainiac Quarantine Diary
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on March 30, 2020 Samuel Clemens spent almost the entirety of Secession Winter aboard the Alonzo Child, a steamboat traversing the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans. Reading Benjamin Griffin’s account of this period...
by admin | May 2, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on June 27, 2019 Carl Richard Dolmetsch, Jr. passed away earlier this month. He was 94. Dolmetsch wrote an influential book in Mark Twain Studies, “Our Famous Guest”: Mark Twain in Vienna, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize...
by admin | May 2, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on November 29, 2017 Sam Clemens celebrated his 39th birthday on November 30, 1874 with his wife, Livy, and their two young daughters. Both Sam and Livy’s birthdays fell in close proximity to the Thanksgiving holiday. It was...
by admin | May 2, 2025 | Emancipation Week, Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 2, 2021 The following essay is published as part of Emancipation Week, alongside Frederick Douglass’s 1880 speech, “The Lessons of Emancipation to a New Generation,” delivered as part of Emancipation Day celebrations in...
by admin | May 2, 2025 | Digital Editions, Mark Twain in Elmira, The Archive
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on September 16, 2019 In her recent salute to Mad Magazine, Barbara Schmidt alluded to the rare pamphlet, Drinking With Twain, self-published by Frank E. Kelsey. The Center for Mark Twain Studies is in possession of one of the five...