November – In N.Y. Sam had invitations printed for the Nov. 19 Children’s Educational Theatre performance of P&P.
Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) invites you to inspect the work of The Children’s Educational Theatre Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway on Tuesday evening, November 19th at 8,15
When a special complimentary performance will be given of “Prince and Pauper” dramatized from his book for the Children’s Educational Theatre
R. S. V. P. 21 Fifth Avenue
Upon receipt of your acceptance Mr. Clemens will send two reserved seats
[MTP].
In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Isabel V. Lyon wrote notes on the back of one of the above invitations.
Miss Herts to make an explanation of the work & its needs Mr. Clemens could introduce Miss Herts
Mr. Clemens has asked me to give an explanation of the work done by these people—the number in the casts—etc. & uplift it has given & it was the suggestion of the children that Mr Clemens be the inviter of the Guests [MTP]. Note: Alice Minnie Herts. See prior incoming letters from Herts.
William Dean Howells’ article in the Dec. issue of Atlantic Monthly, “Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship,” recalled Mark Twain’s contributions from “A True Story” to “Old Times on the Mississippi.” Howells gave credit to the magazine’s owner, Henry O. Houghton, who “always believed that Mark Twain was literature” [Wells 27].
“…originally of Missouri, but then provisionally of Hartford, and ultimately of the Solar System, not to say the Universe. He came first with ‘A True Story,’ one of those noble pieces with which the South has atoned chiefly if not solely through him for all its despite to the Negro…It was finally decided to give the author twenty dollars a page, a rate unexampled in our modest history” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Seventh Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1983 p. 170].
Mark Twain was on yet another magazine cover, this one for the Nov. issue of World Events. In spite of the flashy cover, no articles on Twain are in the magazine, and only one reference to him and “pemmican sentences” can be found. See insert.
Sam’s article “Mental Telegraphy?” was written in Nov. 1907 and not published until 1970 in Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven [Camfield’s bibliog.].
Chapters from “My Autobiography—XXIV” ran in the N.A.R. p.327-36.