Professor Susan K. Harris Donates Her “Courtship” Notebooks to the Mark Twain Archive
Notebooks focus on Elmira and the Langdon family in the 1850’s-1860’s.
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Mark Twain & The Russians: An Exchange of Views
An annotated digital edition of Charles Neider’s 1960 pamphlet.
Broken Idol: An Encomium For Hal Bush
Harold K. Bush, known to his friends as Hal, passed away earlier this week after a prolonged and finally unsuccessful recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Hal was a professor at St. Louis University and an acclaimed Twain scholar, probably best known for Mark Twain & The Spiritual Crisis of His Age (2007) and The Letters of Mark Twain & Joseph Hopkins Twichell (2017). His chapter on Twain in Continuing […]
The Fickle Affections of The Elmira Advertiser For Frederick Douglass
How did the editor of a paper that was habitually rude to Frederick Douglass end up with the manuscript of his Emancipation Day speech?
The Lessons of Emancipation To The New Generation
On August 3, 1880, Frederick Douglass provided the keynote of a large, day-long celebration of Emancipation in Elmira. His speech is reconstructed here for the first time.
Drinking With Twain: A Rare Manuscript
A highly suspect, but entertaining pamphlet by Frank Kelsey, who purported to be Mark Twain’s drinking buddy.
Over 75 Past Lectures Added to the “Trouble Begins Archive”
All these lecture and more can be found in the “Trouble Begins Archive.”
The “Quarry Farm” and “Antenne” Twain Marginalia Now Online
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Fourteen Downloadable “The Trouble Begins” Mark Twain Lectures Added to The Archives
Fourteen more downloadable lectures have been added to the “Trouble Begins” Archives. Most of these lectures come from the years 2009-2014. In 1985, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies inaugurated The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title comes from a handbill advertising Mark Twain’s October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire’s Academy of Music in San Francisco. The lectures are now held in the Spring, Summer, and […]
Four Downloadable “Trouble Begins” Lectures Now Available
Four lectures from the long-running CMTS “Trouble Begins” lecture series are now available for download in a variety of different formats, including MP3 and Apple Lossless. We will continue to add more past lectures, including talks from some of the most famous scholars of Mark Twain Studies, including Henry Nash Smith, Louis Budd, and Michael Kiskis. Additionally, we will post the most recent lectures to this website as soon as […]