Drinking With Twain: A Rare Manuscript
A highly suspect, but entertaining pamphlet by Frank Kelsey, who purported to be Mark Twain’s drinking buddy.
Category: The Archive
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
Explore the CMTS Mark Twain Archive!
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 […]
Rev. Thomas K. Beecher Presides Over the Memorial for Susy Clemens
Thomas K. Beecher manuscript for Olivia Susan Clemens’s memorial service