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Twain by Joseph Keppler appeared on the back cover of PUCK, Dec. 23, 1885. From the Dave Thomson collection

CHRONOLOGY OF KNOWN MARK TWAIN SPEECHES, PUBLIC READINGS, AND LECTURES by Barbara Schmidt

Documenting all of Mark Twain's known public speeches, readings and lectures is a monumental undertaking first attempted by Paul Fatout in his classic volume MARK TWAIN SPEAKING published by University of Iowa Press, 1976. Fatout's listing has been updated at least once by noted Twain scholar Louis Budd in "A Supplement to 'A Chronology' in MARK TWAIN SPEAKING" published in Essays in Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXIX, October 2000, pp. 57-68. Various other scholars have attempted to document all the towns and cities Twain lectured in during his numerous lecture tours around the United States and the world. As more and more of Mark Twain's letters are published and more and more historical newspaper databases become searchable in digital format, it becomes increasingly apparent that no list of Twain's known speeches will likely be complete. While texts of some of Twain's major speeches do survive, many have never been recovered. For Twain's cross country and multiple continent lecture tours, he may have lectured on a particular topic but fine-tuned his speech or public readings to meet the needs of his particular locale. Many local reviews of Twain's appearances have been collected and are online at Stephen Railton's website at the University of Virginia. Many versions of one speech existed, but only one version may have been collected and published. Texts of some of Twain's previously published speeches are online at Jim Zwick's "Mark Twain's Speeches." The following index is a compilation of all known previously published lists currently available. It includes references to publications where texts of Twain's speeches can be found. Additional listings not in the collected edition of MARK TWAIN SPEAKING, or which are corrections to previously published sources, are by Barbara Schmidt and appear in red text. A bibliography of sources appears at the end of this document.

1856
January 17 - Printers Banquet, Keokuk, Iowa - Impromptu remarks - text not available
See Fred W. Lorch, "Mark Twain in Iowa," Iowa Journal of History and Politics 27, no. 3 July 1929) pages 420-21; also mentioned in Mark Twain: A Biography, Vol. 1, by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 107.

1863
July 8 - Collins House Opening, Virginia City, Nevada - Speech - text not available
A new hotel called for toasts, proposed by Tom Fitch, Rollin M. Daggett, Colonel Turner, Judge Ferris, and others. According to the next day's Virginia City Evening Bulletin, "Perhaps the speech of the evening was made by Sam Clemens. He almost brought the house to tears by his touching simple pathos."

October (?) - Eagle Fire Company Celebration, Virginia City, Nevada - Speech - text not available

November (?) - Meerschaum Pipe Presentation, Virginia City, Nevada - Speech - text not available
According to Paul Fatout, at a convivial get together, several of Mark Twain's friends gave him a handsome, but fake, meerschaum pipe. Before discovering the hoax, he made an elaborate speech of thanks, which began, said Dan De Quille, "with the introduction of tobacco into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, and wound up with George Washington." See "Reporting With Mark Twain," California Illustrated, July 1893, pp. 170-78.

December 11 - Third House, Carson City, Nevada- Remarks as President - text not available
Unanimously elected president of the Third House, Mark Twain presided at a turbulent session, of which he wrote an exaggerated account for the Virginia Territorial Enterprise. See Mark Twain of the Enterprise, ed. Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson (Berkeley, 1957) pages 102-10.
Online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/18631213t.html

1864
January 27 - Court House, Carson City, Nevada - "Third Annual Message" - text not available
See Mark Twain's description of the speech in his article to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.

June 12 - Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, California - Presentation Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 1-2.

1866
October 2 - Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, California - "Sandwich Islands"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

October 11 - November 27 - Lecture Tour in California and Nevada. "Sandwich Islands"
16 engagements. Partially managed by Denis McCarthy.
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.
Also see Steve Railton's website at the University of Virginia for more details on this tour including map and reviews.
Towns and cities on the tour included:

October 11 - Sacramento, California
October 15 - Marysville, California
October 20 - Grass Valley, California
October 23 - Nevada City, California
October 24 - Red Dog, California
October 25 - You Bet, California
October 31 - Maguire's Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada
November 3 - Carson City, Nevada
Between November 4 - 7 - Washoe City, Nevada
November 8 - Dayton, Nevada
November 9 - Silver City, Nevada
November 10 - Gold Hill, Nevada (SLC was the victim of a robbery prank after this lecture)
November 16 - San Francisco, California
November 21 - Armory Hall, San Jose, California (location source is from San Francisco Bulletin, November 20, 1866, p. 5.)
November 26 - Petaluma, California
November 27 - College Hall, Twelfth Street, Oakland, California (location source is from San Francisco Bulletin, November 26, 1866, p. 5.)

December 10 - Congress Hall, San Francisco, California - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

1867
March 17 - Sunday School, Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri - "Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog"
Mentioned in a letter to the San Francisco Alta California published May 19, 1867.

March 25 - April 9 - Midwest Lecture Tour: 5 engagements - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.
Also see Steve Railton's website at the University of Virginia for more details of this tour including map.

March 25 - Mercantile Library Hall, St. Louis, Missouri
March 26 - Mercantile Library Hall, St. Louis, Missouri
April 2 - Brittingham Hall, Hannibal, Missouri
Brittingham Hall was better known as the Avery Burch Building. Built as an opera house and meeting hall in 1859 by the Brittingham Brothers who had a thriving drug store, the building had a rich history over the next century. It was used as a military hospital and possibly a prison during the Civil War.
April 8 - Keokuk, Iowa
April 9 - Quincy, Illinois

May 6 - Cooper Institute, New York City - "Sandwich Islands"
For more information on this appearance see "Frank Fuller, The American, Revisited," online at this site.
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

May 10 - Athenaeum, Brooklyn, New York - "Sandwich Islands"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

May 15 - Irving Hall, New York City - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

August 25 - Yalta, Russia - "Address to the Czar"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 18-19.

1868
January 9 - Metzerott Hall, Washington, D.C. "The Frozen Truth" - an account of the Quaker City voyage - only a partial text survives
The Washington Morning Chronicle, January 11, 1868 reported: "The subject of his remarks was the recent trip of a party of excursionists on the steamship Quaker City to Europe and points on the Mediterranean, and his descriptions were replete with sparkling wit, to which his slow, deliberate style of speaking gave a peculiar charm." The complete text of a review in the Washington Star of January 10 is reprinted in Fred Lorch's The Trouble Begins at Eight, pp. 71-73.

January 11 - Newspaper Correspondents Dinner, Welcker's Restaurtant, Washington, D. C - "Woman"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 20-21.
For Mark Twain's comments on this speech, see his letters from Washington published in the Alta, January 28, 1868 and February 19, 1868.

February 14 - Society of Good Fellows, Washington, D. C."Woman," revised - no complete surviving text has been found
Mentioned in a letter Twain wrote to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise and published on March 7, 1868.

February 22 - Ladies' Union Benevolent Society, Forrest Hall, Georgetown - "Sandwich Islands" - with some variations.
See Lorch's The Trouble Begins at Eight, p. 73 and Fatout's Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit, p. 86.

March (?) - S.S. Sacramento, at sea. "Charade" - text not available

April 6 - Literary Society of Rev. Charles Wadsworth's Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California - Informal speech - text not available
See Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, 1867-1868, p. 206.

April 9 - Methodist Episcopal Church, Oakland, California - text not available
See Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, 1867-1868, p. 206.

April 14 and 15 - Platt's Hall, San Francisco, California - "The Frozen Truth" - an account of the Quaker City voyage - only a partial text survives

April 17 - 29 - Lecture Tour, California and Nevada: at least 7 engagements - "Pilgrim Life"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 23-24.
Also see Steve Railton's website at the University of Virginia for more details of this tour including map and publicity.

April 17 - Metropolitan Theater, Sacramento, California
April 18 - Marysville, California
April 20 - Nevada City, California
April 21 - Grass Valley, California
April 27 and 28 - Piper's Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada
April 29 - Carson City, Nevada

April 30 - Carson City, Nevada - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

July 2 - Mercantile Library, San Francisco, California - "Venice" - no surviving complete text
Partial text, the introduction, published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 25-26. Summary from the Alta California reprinted in Lorch's The Trouble Begins at Eight, p. 83.

July 10 - S.S. Montana, at sea. "Composition--the Cow" - text not available
The shipboard program was called "Country School Exhibition." See Mark Twain's letter to the Alta California, September 6, 1868.

November 17 - March 3, 1869 Eastern Lecture Tour: at least 43 engagements - "The American Vandal Abroad"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 27-36.
Also see Steve Railton's website at the University of Virginia for more details of this tour including map.
Partially managed by G. L. Torbert and by Clemens himself, the following cities were on the Eastern Lecture Tour:

November 17 - Case Hall, Cleveland, Ohio
November 19 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 23 - Opera House, Elmira, New York
December 2 - Rondout, New York
December 9 - Opera House, Newark, New Jersey
December 11 - Norwich, New York
December 16 - Scranton, Pennsylvania
December 19 - Fort Plain, New York
December 22 - Young Men's Hall, Detroit, Michigan
December 23 - Lansing, Michigan
December 25 - Charlotte, Michigan
December 26 - Tecumseh, Michigan
December 30 - Akron, Ohio

1869

January 2 - Fort Wayne, Indiana
January 4 - The Metropolitan, Indianapolis, Indiana
January 6 - Rockford, Illinois
January 7 - Library Hall, Chicago, Illinois
January 8 - Monmouth, Illinois
January 9 - Galesburg, Illinois
January 11 - Rouse's Opera House, Peoria, Illinois
January 12 - Decatur, Illinois
January 13 - Ottawa, Illinois
January 14 - Davenport, Iowa
January 15 - Metropolitan Hall, Iowa City, Iowa
January 20 - White's Hall, Toledo, Ohio
January 21 - Norwalk, Ohio

January 22 - Protestant Orphan Asylum Benefit, Case Hall, Cleveland, Ohio - "The American Vandal Abroad"
Plus concluding remarks published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 37-38.

January 25 - Marshall, Michigan
January 26 - Batavia, Illinois
January 27 - Freeport, Illinois
January 28 - Waterloo, Iowa
January 29 - Galena, Illinois
February 1 - Jacksonville, Illinois
February 13 - Ravenna, Ohio
February 15 - Alliance, Ohio
February 16 - Titusville, Pennsylvania
February 17 - Franklin, Pennsylvania
February 23 - Trenton, New Jersey
February 25 - Stuyvesant, New York
March 1 - Geneseo, New York
March 3 - Lockport, New York
March 16 - Newtown, New York
March 20 - Sharon, Pennsylvania

June 5 - Press Club Dinner, New York City - "Reliable Contraband"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 38-40.

November 1 - January 21, 1870 Lecture Tour: At least 49 engagements - "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.
Also see Steve Railton's web site at the University of Virginia for more details on on this tour.
Under the management of James Redpath, the following cities were on the tour:

November 1 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 9 - Harrington's Opera House, Providence, Rhode Island
November 10 - Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
November 11 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
November 13 - Norwich, Connecticut
November 15 - Clinton, Massachusetts
November 16 - Holyoke, Massachusetts
November 17 - Danvers, Massachusetts
November 19 - Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
November 23 - Hartford, Connecticut
November 26 - Unidentified town (mentioned in a letter from SLC to Olivia Clemens)
November 29 - Newtonville, Massachusetts
November 30 - Thompsonville, Connecticut
December 1 - Brooklyn Library Society, Brooklyn, New York
December 3 - Collingwood's Opera House, Poughkeepsie, New York
December 6 - Beecher's Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York
December 7 - Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 8 - Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C.
December 9 - Germantown, Pennsylvania
December 10 - Mount Vernon, New York
December 11 - West Meriden, Connecticut
December 13 - New Britain, Connecticut
December 14 - Warren, Massachusetts
December 15 - Armory Hall, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
December 16 - Waltham, Massachusetts
December 20 - Canton, Massachusetts
December 21 - Hudson, Massachusetts
December 22 - Portland, Maine
December 23 - Rockport, Massachusetts
December 24 - Slatersville, Rhode Island
December 27 - Music Hall, New Haven, Connecticut
December 28 - Trenton, New Jersey
December 29 - Newark, New Jersey
December 30 - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
December 31 - Williamsport, Pennsylvania

1870

January 4 - Oswego, New York
January 6 - Amenia, New York
January 7 - Egberts Hall, Cohoes, New York
January 10 - Albany, New York
January 11 - Union Place Hall, West Troy, New York
January 12 - Rondout, New York
January 13 - Cambridge, New York
January 14 - Utica, New York
January 15 - Doolittle Hall , Oswego, New York
January 17 - Baldwinsville, New York
January 18 - Ogdensburg, New York
January 19 - Fredonia, New York
January 20 - Hornellsville, New York
January 21 - Institute Hall, Jamestown, New York

From Budd's update:
June 23 - Female Academy, Buffalo, New York - Commencement Exercises Speech.
See Mark Twain at the "Buffalo Express" ed. McCullough and McIntire-Strasburg, pp. 211-115. Text states Clemens wrote the speech but it was read by David Gray.

1871
October 16 - February 27, 1872, Lecture tour, at least 77 engagements included three different speeches.
Also see Steve Railton's web site at the University of Virginia for more details on this tour including map, ads and reviews.
Under the management of James Redpath, the following cities were on the tour:

October 16 - Moravian Day School Hall, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. "Uncommonplace Characters" - text not available
October 17 - Allentown, Pennsylvania. "Uncommonplace Characters" - text not available
October 18 - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. "Uncommonplace Characters" - text not available

October 23 - Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C. - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
October 24 - Institute Hall, Wilmington, Delaware - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
October 25 - Norristown, Pennsylvania - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
October 27 - Great Barrington, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
October 30 - Brattleboro, Vermont - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
October 31 - Milford, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 1 - Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 2 - Town Hall, Exeter, New Hampshire - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 3 - Andover, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 6 - Town Hall, Malden, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 8 - Allyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 9 - Worcester, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 10 - Randolph, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 13 - Boston, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 14 - Smyth's Hall, Manchester, New Hampshire - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 15 - Haverhill, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 16 - City Hall, Portland, Maine - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 17 - Lowell, Massachusetts - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 20 - Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 21 - Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 22 - Roundout, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 23 - Court House, Easton, Pennsylvania - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 24 - Reading, Pennsylvania - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 27 - Bennington, Vermont - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 28 - Tweddle Hall, Albany, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
November 29 - Opera House, Newark, New Jersey - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 1 - Oswego, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 2 - Barber Hall, Homer, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 4 - Geneva, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 5 - Auburn, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 6 - Wieting Opera House, Syracuse, New York - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 7 - Sprague's Hall, Warsaw, New York - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
December 8 - Fredonia, New York - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

December 9 - Farrar Hall, Erie, Pennsylvania - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 11 - Toledo, Ohio - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 12 - Ann Arbor, Michigan - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 13 - Union Hall, Jackson, Michigan - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.

December 14 - Lansing, Michigan - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
December 15 - Luce's Hall, Grand Rapids, Michigan - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
December 16 - Union Hall, Kalamazoo, Michigan - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
December 18 - Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
December 19 - Union Park Congregational Church, Chicago, Illinois - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

December 20 - Sandwich, Illinois - Topic unknown - text not available
December 21 - Aurora, Illinois - Topic unknown - text not available

December 22 - Princeton, Illinois - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
December 26 - Champaign, Illinois - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.

December 27 - Tuscola, Illinois - "Artemus Ward" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 41-47.
See Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 4 (1870-1871) p. 525: "Lectured on Ward tonight."

December 28 - Danville, Illinois - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

December 29 - Mattoon, Illinois - Topic unknown - text not available
December 30 - Paris, Illinois - Topic unknown - text not available

1872

January 1 - Association Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 2 - Opera House, Logansport, Indiana - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 3 - Richmond, Indiana - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 4 - Music Hall, Dayton, Ohio - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 5 - Columbus, Ohio - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 6 - Arcadome Hall, Wooster, Ohio - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 8 - Salem, Ohio - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 9 - Steubenville, Ohio - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 10 - Washington Hall, Wheeling, West Virginia - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 11 - Library Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 12 - Kittanning, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 16 - Lock Haven, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 17 - Milton, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 18 - Court House, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 19 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 22 - Carlisle, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 23 - Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 24 - Steinway Hall, New York, New York - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 29 - Scranton, Pennsylvania - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 30 - The Tabernacle, Jersey City, New Jersey - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
January 31 - Paterson, New Jersey - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
February 1 - Rand's Hall, Troy, New York - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.
February 21 - Danbury, Connecticut - "Roughing It" - One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

February 23 - The Aldine Dinner, St. James Hotel, New York City - Dinner Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 65-68.
From Budd's update:
Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5 (1872-1873), pp. 47-48 gives sources for other texts. Also, the Chicago Tribune, 2 March 1872, p. 5, gives a long text.

February 27 - Amherst, Massachusetts - "Roughing It"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

September 6 - Whitefriars Club, London, England - Dinner Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 72-73.

September 21 - Savage Club, London, England - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 69-71.

September 28 Sheriffs Dinner, Guildhall, London - Response to a toast "Success to Literature" - text not available
The dinner was given by the new sheriffs of London to the city guilds and liverymen. When one of the sheriffs proposed the health of Mark Twain, he was applauded, then responded to the toast. The London Times, September 30, 1872, called it "an amusing speech." See Love Letters of Mark Twain, edited by Dixon Wecter (Harper & Bros., 1949), pp.178-79.

1873
January 31 - Benefit for Father Hawley, Allyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - "Sandwich Islands"
In a letter to the Hartford Courant, January 29, 1873, Mark Twain said that charity is "a dignified and respectworthy thing, and there is small merit about it and less grace when it don't cost anything. We would like to have a thousand dollars in the house; we point to the snow and the thermometer; we call Hartford by name, and we are not much afraid but that she will step to the front and answer for herself.... I am thoroughly and cheerfully willing to lecture here for such an object, though I would have serious objections to talking in my own town for the benefit of my own pocket--we freebooters of the platform consider it more graceful to fly the black flag in strange waters and prey upon remote and friendless communities." All services having been donated, the benefit netted $1,500 for Father Hawley.
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

February 1 - Lotos Club, New York City - Speech
Remarks summarized in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 5, p. 292 which references text from John Elderkin, A Brief History of the Lotos Club (New York: Club House, 1895), pp. 15-16 for a page summary.

February 5 - Steinway Hall, New York City - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.
Review in The New York Times.

February 7 - Brooklyn, New York - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

February 10 - Steinway Hall, New York City - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

February 13 - Jersey City, New Jersey - "Sandwich Islands"
One version of this speech is published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.
Mentioned in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 5, p. 295.

March 31 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - "License of the Press"
Published in Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, edited by Louis J. Budd, (Library of America: 1992), pp. 551-555.

July 4 - Meeting of Americans, London, England - Dinner Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 74-76.

Lectures arranged under the management of George Dolby:
October 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 - Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, London, England - "Sandwich Islands"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

October 20 - Liverpool Institute, Liverpool, England - "Sandwich Islands"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

November 29 - St. Andrew's Society, Salutation Tavern, London, England - "The Guests"
Published in Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5, 1872-1873, p. 491.
Also in Hartford Daily Courant, December 20, 1873, p. 2 "Mark Twain on Scotland"

Lectures arranged under the management of George Dolby:
December 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, London, England - "Sandwich Islands"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

December 1 - Scottish Corporation, London, England - "The Ladies"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 78-80.

Lectures arranged under the management of George Dolby:
December 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 - Queen's Concert Rooms, London, England - "Roughing It"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

December 12 - Scotch Morayshire Dinner, London, England - Dinner Speech - "The Visitors" - text not available
Paraphrased in Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5, 1872-1873, p 509-510.

December 22 - Small gathering, London, England. Dinner Speech - short remarks
Paraphrased in Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5, 1872-1873, p 526.

1874
January 8 - Leicester, England - "Roughing It" - Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

January 9 - Liverpool, England - "Roughing It" - Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

January 10 - Liverpool, England - "Sandwich Islands" and "Jumping Frog"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 4-15.

February 16 - Wilkie Collins Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts - Dinner Speech. - text not available
The Boston Transcript said, February 17, 1874: "Mark Twain gave a brief description of his reception in England, saying that he was very successful in the object of his visit there, which was to teach people good morals, and to introduce some of the improvements of the present century."

February 17 - Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts - Introducing Charles Kingsley.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 83-83. Misidentified and misdated by Fatout as taking place in Salem, Massachusetts on February 14.

February 17 - Massachusetts Press Association Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts - Dinner Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 85-87.

March 5 - Horticultural Hall, Boston, Massachusetts - "Roughing It"
See Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6, p. 58, 60 for press comments.

September 16 - Opening of the play The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York City - Curtain Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 87-89.

October 12 - Insurance Men's Banquet for Cornelius Walford, Allyn House, Hartford, Connecticut - Dinner Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 89-91.

December 15 - Atlantic Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts. Dinner Speech - text not available
Howells was toastmaster, and among those present were Aldrich, Holmes, George Cary Eggleston, and Henry James. The Boston Transcript, December 16, 1874, calling Mark Twain's speech one of the brightest of the evening, summarized his remarks: "once when sailing on the blue Mediterranean ... he tried to give the impression that he was a poet. He said no one believed him, and after repeated protestations he rashly laid a wager of ten to one that he could get a poem printed in the Atlantic. The poem was forwarded from Gibraltar, the bet was ten dollars to a hundred, which accounts, Mark said, for the fact that he had only three dollars in his pocket when he reached here. A subsequent anecdote related by him and Mr. Osgood jointly, proved that Mark was more at home in a game called 'euchre' than in poetry, and Mr. Osgood assured the company that it was not a safe practice to play cards with Mark Twain." See Arthur Gilman, "Atlantic Dinners and Diners," Atlantic Monthly 100, no. 5 (November 1907) pp. 646-67.

December 23 - One hundredth performance of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York City - Curtain Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 92-93.
Also in The New York Times, December 24, 1874

1875
February 15 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - "Universal Suffrage"
For a portion of the text see Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, p. 541.

March 5 - For Father David Hawley, Hartford, Connecticut - "Roughing It"
One version of this speech published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 48-63.

April 7 - Connecticut Retreat for the Insane, Washington Street, Hartford, Connecticut - "Roughing It"
Icon notes for this speech published in Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6, p. 405.

May 12 - Asylum Hill Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Introducing Spelling Match.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 94-96.
Also:"Mark Twain's Spelling Match Speech," by Harriet Elinor Smith and Michael B. Frank,
The Southern Quarterly, A Journal of the Arts in the South, Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2002, pages 5-9.

From Budd's update:
Mid-August - Castle Hill, Newport, Rhode Island, Town and Country Club picnic - Speech - text not available
See John Roche, "Mark Twain in Newport," Mark Twain Journal, 25 (Fall 1987) 23-27.

From Budd's update:
August 23 - Bellevue Dramatic Group, Opera House Newport, Rhode Island - readings "How I Edited an Agriculture Paper" and from Roughing It
See John Roche, "Mark Twain in Newport," Mark Twain Journal, 25 (Fall 1987) 23-27.

November 12 - Dramatic Association Speech, Hartford, Connecticut - text not available
See Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 6, 1874 - 1875, p. 590.

December 21 - Asylum Hill Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Readings - text not available
The Hartford Courant of Thursday, December 16, 1875, p. 1 in an article titled "Christ Church Choir and Mark Twain" reported that Twain had agreed to give some readings for benevolence on the following Tuesday..

1876
January 24 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut"

The following March 1876 lectures were to benefit John Brown, a friend--the Edinburgh author and physician whom the Clemenses had met in 1873. Brown's friends were quietly raising a fund that would enable him to retire from the stresses of his medical practice.

March 22 - Kent Club, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - "Roughing It"
See SLC to James Redpath, 17 March 1876., Hartford, Conn. (UCCL 01314), n. 1. 2007. <http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01314.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp#an1>

March 28 and 29 - Chickering Hall, New York, NY - "Roughing It"
See SLC to James Redpath, 17 March 1876., Hartford, Conn. (UCCL 01314), n. 2. 2007. <http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01314.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp#an2>

March 30 - Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York - "Roughing It in the Land of the Big Bonanza"
Reported in Brooklyn Eagle, March 31, 1876, p. 3
The newspaper stated the lecture was at 1:30 pm and the audience was small. Agent Redpath came out before Twain appeared and asked the audience to move closer to the better seats in the parquette.
See SLC to James Redpath, 17 March 1876., Hartford, Conn. (UCCL 01314), n. 2. 2007. <http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01314.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp#an2>

March 30 - New York Press Club, New York - recitation, probably "Roughing It"
Reported in Boston Globe, March 31, 1876, p. 5

March 31 - Chickering Hall, New York, NY - "Roughing It"
See SLC to James Redpath, 17 March 1876., Hartford, Conn. (UCCL 01314), n. 2. 2007. <http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01314.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp#an2>

April 26 & 27 - Dramatic Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - performance in role of Peter Spyk in the play "Loan of a Lover" - text not available
See Mark Twain's Letters, 1876-1880, An Electronic Edition, Volume 1: 1876, 28 April 1876 to William Franklin, 4 May 1876 to Augustin Daly, and 5 May 1876 to Moncure Conway which indicates that Twain "rewrote the part." Also see two articles in Hartford Daily Courant dated April 27, p. 2 "The Amateur Theatricals" and April 28, p. 2 "The Amateur Stage."

July 1 - Congress of Authors, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Reading "Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia"
See Mark Twain's Letters, 1876-1880, An Electronic Edition, Volume 1: 1876, Letter 23 February 23, 1876 to Frank Etting and 24 June 1876 to William S. Stokley

September 30 - Political Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech on Rutherford B. Hayes.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 97-99.

November 13 - Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York - Readings
Mark Twain read "The McWilliamses and the Membranous Croup," "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship," and "Encounter With an Interviewer." Also on the program were Emma Thursby, a well-known operatic soprano, and a group of singers called the Young Apollo Club.

From Budd's update:
November 14 - Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Reading
Highly similar to November 13 performance in Brooklyn. See advertisements in Philadelphia Public Ledger, 13 and 14 November, p. 1.

November 21 - Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts - Readings
Highly similar to November 13 performance in Brooklyn.
See Boston Daily Globe, "The Mark Twain Combination," November 20, 1876, p. 5
See Boston Daily Globe, "On the Platform," November 22, 1876, p. 8

November 22 - Academy of Music, Chelsea, Massachusetts - Readings
Highly similar to November 13 performance in Brooklyn.

November 24 - Providence, Rhode Island - Readings
Highly similar to November 13 performance in Brooklyn, New York.

December 14 - Union's Fair, Hartford, Connecticut - Auctioneer for sale of Jabberwocks - stories
Reported in the Hartford Courant, December 14, 1876, p. 2, "The Sale of the Jabberwocks." The article reported as follows: The remarkable collection of subterranean creatures, known as the Jabberwocks, now on exhibition at the Union's fair, are to be sold at auction this evening by Mark Twain as auctioneer. They were found underground and recognized almost by accident, it must have been, at first, but now that their identity is made known, they are evidently what they are. Mr. Clemens will explain the history of the "Beamish Boy Galumping Home," afford an opportunity to secure the "Momerath Outgrubing," and the "Slithy Tove upon a Tumtum Tree," and suggest points in the biography of the "Freemious Bandersnatch," and so forth. The Mud March Hare and the Mock Turtle that wept to think it was not a real turtle may also be had for a price.

December 22 - New England Society Dinner, New York City - "The Weather"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 100-103.

Ca. 1876
Asylum Hill Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1877
January 26 - Mission Circle, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Auctioneer - Stories - text not available
The Hartford Daily Courant of January 25, 1877, p. 2 in an article titled "A Package Party" reported the entertainment would depend upon the auctioneer and that Mark Twain was scheduled to officiate in that capacity.

From Budd's update:
February 6 - Press Club, New York City - Readings - "Encounter with an Interviewer" and "Dueling Experiences"
The New York Times of February 7, p. 5 reported he read "Encounter with an Interviewer" and his "Dueling Experiences," which kept the audience in constant laughter. The New York Tribune of the same date, p. 8 also reported on the speech.

March 26 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - "Advantages of Travel" - text not available

July 31 - Opening of Ah Sin, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City - Curtain Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 103-105.

October 2 - Putnam Phalanx Dinner, Hartford, Connecticut - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 106-109.
Also reported in The New York Times, October 7, 1877

December 12 - Seminary Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Introducing William Dean Howells
Howells was appearing on the Seminary Hall Lecture Course. Of Mark Twain's introduction, the Hartford Times, December 13, 1877, gives a fragment: "The gentleman who is now to address you is the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He has a reputation in the literary world which I need not say anything about. I am only here to back up his moral character."

December 17 - John G. Whittier Birthday Dinner, Hotel Brunswick, Boston, Massachusetts - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 110-114.

1878
January 26 - Geselischaft Harmonic, New York City - Speech - text not available

February 25 - Press Club, New York City - Speech - text not available

April 4 - Bayard Taylor Dinner, New York City - Dinner Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 116-118.

July 4 - Anglo-American Club, Heidelberg - German-English Speech.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 116-118.

November 30 - Artists Club, Munich, Germany - Speech or Story - text not available
In Notebook 13, October 13, 1878 - January 1879, MTP, Mark Twain comments briefly on this "blowout" for Toby Rosenthal, American expatriate painter, chiefly on the speech of Consul Horstmann, who interpolated rhymed doggerel, each stanza ending with "Toby Rosenthal."

1879
ca. January - American Artists Club, Munich, Germany - Reading - "The Invalid's Story"
A letter from SLC to Joseph Twichell dated 26 January 1879 mentions giving the narrative about the Limburger cheese and a box of guns.
See Mark Twain's Letters, 1876-1880, An Electronic Edition, Volume 4: 1879.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 122-124.

ca. April - Stanley Club Dinner, Paris - Dinner Speech - "The Invalid's Story"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 122-124.

Spring - Stomach Club, Paris - "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 125-127.

October 16 - Introducing General Hawley, Republican Meeting, Elmira, New York - Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 128-129.
From Budd:
A text closer to the event is in Elmira Daily Advertiser, rpt. in Mark Twain in Elmira, ed. Robert D. Jerome and Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., pp. 75-77.

November 12 - Army of the Tennessee Reunion, Haverly's Theatre, Chicago, Illinois - Impromptu remarks
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 130.

November 13 - Army of the Tennessee Reunion Banquet, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois - "The Babies"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 131-133.

November 14 - Founding of Press Club, Chicago, Illinois - Speech - text not available
According to Paul Fatout, a letter from A. L. Hardy to Mark Twain, MTP, says that after the reunion banquet at the Palmer House, about fifty men gathered in the underground cafe of Captain Jim Simms on Clark Street. There were sandwiches, wurst, pretzels, beer, ale, Scotch, and a great deal of talk, Mark Twain acting as a sort of chairman at the head of the table. By dawn only seven remained. A note scrawled on the letter by Mark Twain, evidently one of the stayers, says that the Chicago Press Club was founded that night about seven in the morning.

November 14 - Breakfast for Mark Twain, Chicago, Illinois - Speech - text not available
According to Paul Fatout, the menu, MTP, says that this breakfast was tendered "By a few Chicago journalists," that the time was 12 noon, and that the bill of fare was: Fruit, Oysters on shell, Broiled Salmon Chateaubriand, with Champignons; French Fried Potatoes, Calves' Sweetbreads with French Peas, Spanish Omelette, Cutlets of Chicken, cream sauce; Broiled Quail on Toast, French Coffee, Cognac.

December 3 - Atlantic Monthly Breakfast for Oliver Wendall Holmes, Boston, Massachusetts - Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 134-136.

1880

April 2 - unidentified function, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - text not available
Mentioned in a letter from SLC to Orion Clemens, April 4, 1880
Mark Twain's Letters, Electronic Edition, Volume 5

April 5 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "Decay of the Art of Lying"

ca. April 26-30 - Private reading, Hartford, Connecticut - "A Telephonic Conversation"
Mentioned without name in a letter from SLC to William Dean Howells, April 23, 1880
Mark Twain's Letters, Electronic Edition, Volume 5

June 5 - Grand Bazar for Union for Home Work, Hartford, Connecticut - Auctioneer for sale of Jabberwocks - stories
The Hartford Daily Courant of June 7, 1880, p. 2 in a story titled "The Bazar" reported that Mr. Clemens "after successfully disposing of a number of articles in Booth J. generously offered to dispose of the booth itself and all the people in it, including himself, but as no satisfactory offers were made the lot was withdrawn."

October 16 - Hartford, Connecticut - Welcome to General Grant
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 136-138.

October 26 - Hartford Opera House, Republican Rally, Hartford, Connecticut - Political Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 138-144.

bef. October 29 - German Republican Meeting, Second ward, Hawley Club room, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech - text not available
The Hartford Daily Courant of October 29, 1880, p. 2 in an article titled "German Republican Meeting" reported that President Maerklein presided at the meeting. Judge Sherman Adams spoke in German; Mr. George H. Woods spoke in English; and "the principal speaker of the evening was Mark Twain, who made a capital speech in German, interspersed with American, which was received with great favor, eliciting frequent demonstrations of approval."

November 2 - Hartford Opera House, Republican Jollification, Hartford, Connecticut - "Funeral Oration"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 146-147.

November 6 - Middlesex Club, Boston, Massachusetts - Speech - text not available
The Hartford Daily Courant of November 9, 1880, p 2 in an article titled "Political Notes" reported "At the Middlesex club meeting in Boston, Saturday, Mark Twain brought down the house when he said: 'What was the biggest triumph, we elected seven sheriffs out of eight, and that is as it should be, because the criminals and officers ought to be of opposite parties." The Hartford Daily Courant of November 13, 1880, p. 1 in an article titled "Boston Correspondence" reported "Governor Jewell and Mark Twain were here from Hartford, and dined with the Middlesex club. Governor Jewell was cordially received, and his speech was naturally made in the best of spirits. Mark Twain was in a good mood for the most part, though I am inclined to think that on calm reflection he is himself convinced that it would have been as well for him to let Abou Ben Adhem alone." [Ed. note: Mark Twain wrote a parady of the poem by James Leigh Hunt "Abou Ben Adhem" sometime in September 1880. Twain's parody "Abou Ben Butler" is reprinted in Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journal, vol. 2, p. 372-373.]

December 10 - Opera House, Hartford, Connecticut - Introducing Robert Burdette - text not available
Robert Burdette of the Burlington Hawkeye was introduced by Mark Twain according to a report in the Hartford Daily Courant. In the Courant article of December 11, 1880, p. 1 titled "Burdette's Lecture" it was reported that "He was introduced by Mr. Clemens, in a few complimentary words, as one whose wit was without bitterness and whose much quoted paragraphs had a manly and honest ring."

December 20 - Tile Club, Francis Hopkinson Smith Studio, New York City - Speech or Stories - text not available

Unknown date - Saturday Morning Club, Hartford, Connecticut - "Plagiarism" - text not available

Unknown date - Decorative Art Society, home of Mrs. Samuel Colt, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - text not available
This reading was mentioned in the Hartford Daily Courant of January 13, 1881, p. 2 in a news article "The Decorative Art Society" which recounted the accomplishments and activities of the previous year. The article stated three entertainments have been given for the benefit of the society, which helped to replish the treasury. These included a reading by Mr. S. L. Clemens at the home of Mrs. Colt.

1881
February 24 - Papyrus Club Dinner, Revere House, Boston, Massachusetts - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 148-150.

February 26 - Twichell's Chapel, Hartford, Massachusetts - "Tar Baby" - text not available
Mentioned in a letter from SLC to William Dean Howells, February 21, 1881
Mark Twain-Howells Letters, Volume 1, edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, Belknap Press, 1960, p. 356.

February 28 - West Point, New York. Readings - "Clarence and Eugene," "How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel," "Cure for Stammering"
See Philip Leon's Mark Twain and West Point, ECW Press, 1996.

March 10 - Negro Church, Hartford, Connecticut. Readings - "Tar Baby" - text not available.
Mentioned in a letter from SLC to William Dean Howells, February 21, 1881
Mark Twain-Howells Letters, Volume 1, edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, Belknap Press, 1960, p. 356.

June 8 - Army of the Potomac Banquet, Allyn House, Hartford, Connecticut - "The Benefit of Judicious Training"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 151-154.

November 17 - Introducing Archibald Forbes, Allyn House, Hartford, Connecticut - Introductory Speech
Published in Hartford Daily Courant, November 18, 1881, p. 2, "The War Correspondent"
Online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/Forbes.html

November 21 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "Phrenography" - text not available

December 8 - Dinner for Mark Twain, Windsor Hotel, Montreal, Canada - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 157-160.

December 22 - New England Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 162-165.

1882
January 31 - Frechette Dinner, Holyoke, Massachusetts - "On After-Dinner Speaking"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 166-168.

February 24 - Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - text not available
Reported in Hartford Daily Courant, February 25, 1882, p. 3, "Additional City News"

April 15 - Saturday Morning Club, Boston, Massachusetts. Reading - "Advice to Youth"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 169-171.

October 19 - Allyn Hall, Reception for Worcester Continentals, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech - "City of Hartford"
Published in Hartford Daily Courant, October 20, 1882, p. 2, "The Visiting Soldiery"
Online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/Hartford.html

November 4 - Papyrus Club, Boston, Massachusetts - Speech - text not available
Reported in Hartford Daily Courant, November 6, 1882, p. 2, "City Briefs"

December 22 - New England Society, Delmonico's, New York City - "Woman - God Bless Her"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 173-175.

1883
February 19 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "What is Happiness? - this text became the basis for What Is Man?

March (?) The Kinsmen, New York City - Speech - text not available
According to Paul Fatout, the Kinsmen was a club without dues, clubhouse, officers or bylaws. It was established by Lawrence Barrett, the name suggested by Laurence Hutton to symbolize practitioners of kindred arts who made up the membership. Mark Twain attended as the guest of Hutton in 1883. Other Kinsmen, American and British, were William Dean Howells, Frank D. Millet, T. B. Aldrich, H. C. Bunner, E. A. Abbey, Anthony Hope, Edwin Booth, Brander Matthews, Joe Jefferson, August St. Gaudens, Pinero, Bram Stoker, Forbes Robertson, John Singer Sargent, Henry Irving, Julian Hawthorne, Andrew Lang, and Edmund Gosse. For further information, see Laurence Hutton's, Talks in a Library, page 326-28 and Brander Matthews, The Tocsin of Revolt, page 255.

March 5 - Billiards Exhibition, New York City - Speech introducing Maurice Vignaux - text not available
The Washington Post of March 6, 1883 in a story datelined New York, March 5, p. 1 titled "Vignaux Beats Sexton Easily" reported the players were introduced, among whom were a number of noted lawyers and billiardists, by Mark Twain in a humorous speech.

April 4 - Unity Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Introducing George W. Cable
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 176-177.

April 4 - Supper for George W. Cable, Hartford Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech - text not available
Of this late party Cable remarked upon an "abundance of innocent fun. There were a hundred good things said that I suppose I'll never remember." Also see Laurence Hutton's, Talks in a Library, pp. 416-18.

April 5 - Saturday Morning Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Introducing George W. Cable
See George W. Cable, His Life and Letters, edited by Lucy Bikle, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928, p. 97.

May 23 - Royal literary and Scientific Society, Ottawa, Canada - "On Adam"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 178-180.

May 27 - Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada - Readings - text not available

June 7 - Decorative Art Society, home of Mrs. Franklin Whitmore, Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - text not available
According to the Hartford Daily Courant, June 8, 1883, p. 2, "City Briefs" Twain gave a series of readings from his own writings to about 150 members and friends of the Decorative Art Society.

December 4 - Union for Home Work, Authors' Carnival, Hartford, Connecticut - Actor in role from a Dickens novel - text not available
According to the Hartford Daily Courant, December 5, 1883, p. 2 in an article titled "The Authors' Carnival" -- The second event of the evening was the presentation on the large stage of a scene from Charles Dickens's "Leo Hunter." It introduced a number of clever ladies and gnetlemen who not only acted their parts, but lent to it the dialogue. The principals, Miss Hamersley and Mr. Prentice, were roundly applauded, and when Mark Twain came on the stage as a character in the scene, plaudits rang from one end of the enormous hall to the other. This scene alone was enough to compensate one for the expense of the entire evening's entertainment.

1884
February 4 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "Southern Literature" - text not available

April 14 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - Unfinished Paper to be Completed by Each Member - text not available

April 29 - Breakfast for Edwin Booth, New York City - Speech - text not available

September 16 or 17 (conjectural) - Banquet of Wheelmen, Springfield, Massachusetts - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 181.
Note: This date is in question. Although the speech was written for such an occasion, SLC was in Elmira, NY during this time frame.

October (?) - Mugwump Rally, Hartford, Connecticut - "Turncoats"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 182-184.

October 20 - Mugwump Rally, Allyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Remarks as Chairman
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 186-187.

November (?) "Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan" - unknown whether or not this speech was ever delivered
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 188-189.

November 5 - February 28, 1885 - Tour with George Washington Cable - over 100 engagements. Twain read and delivered passages from numerous works including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Also see Steve Railton's website at the University of Virginia for more details on this tour including map, letters, and reviews.

Under the management of James B. Pond, the following cities were included on the tour:
November 5 - Opera House, New Haven, Connecticut
November 7 - Springfield, Massachusetts
November - 8 - Blackstone Hall, Providence, Rhode Island
November 10 - Melrose, Massachusetts
November 12 - Lowell, Massachusetts
November 13 - Music Hall, Boston, Masschusetts
November 17 - Hartford, Connecticut
November 18 & 19 (two performances on Nov. 19) Chickering Hall, New York City
Reviewed in The New York Times, November 19, 1884
November 20 - Newburgh, New York
November 21 - Association Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 22 (two performances) - Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
November 24 & 25 - Congregational Church, Washington, D.C. (President Chester A. Arthur was in attendance.)
November 26 - Association Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Twain's performance included "Encounter with an Interviewer")

Thanksgiving Day, November 27 was spent with Thomas Nast in Morristown, New Jersey.

November 28 & 29 - Academy of Music, Baltimore, Maryland. (The Nov. 28 performance included a reading of "The Tragic Tale of the Fishwife")
December 1 - Adams, Massachusetts
December 2 - Music Hall, Troy, New York
December 3 - Ithaca, New York
December 4 - Muskegon, Michigan
December 6 (two performances) - Rochester, New York
December 8 - Horticulture Gardens Pavilion, Toronto, Canada
December 10 & 11 - Concert Hall, Buffalo, New York
December 12 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
December 13 - Grand Rapids, Michigan
December 15 - Toledo, Ohio
December 16 - Whitney's, Detroit, Michigan

Christmas Recess

December 29 - Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
December 30 - Grand Opera House, Dayton, Ohio
December 31 - Court House, Paris, Kentucky

1885

Under the management of Ozias Pond, brother of James B. Pond:
January 2 & 3 (two performances on the 3rd) - Odeon Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio
January 5 & 6 - Leiderkranz Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
January 7 - Plymouth Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
January 8 - Opera House, Springfield, Illinois
January 9 & 10 - Mercantile Library Hall , St. Louis, Missouri
January 12 - Opera House, Quincy, Illinois
January 13 - Hannibal, Missouri
January 14 - Opera House, Keokuk, Iowa
January 15 - Opera House, Burlington, Iowa
January 16 & 17 (two performances on the 17th) Central Music Hall, Chicago, Illinois
January 18 - Evanston, Illinois
January 20 - Opera House, Janesville, Wisconsin
January 21 - Methodist Church, Madison, Wisconsin
January 22 - LaCrosse, Wisconsin
January 23 - Market Hall, St. Paul, Minnesota
January 24 (two performances) - The Grand, Minneapolis, Minnesota
January 26 - Philharmonic Hall, Winona, Minnesota
January 27 - Methodist Church basement, Madison, Wisconsin
January 28 & 29 - Academy of Music, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
January 30 - Rockford, Illinois
January 31 - Davenport, Iowa

Under the management again of James B. Pond
February 2 & 3 - Central Music Hall, Chicago, Illinois
February 4 - Opera House, South Bend, Indiana
February 5 - Academy of Music, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Reviewed in Ft. Wayne (IND) Daily Gazette on Feb. 6, 1885; additional comments in Ft. Wayne (IND) Sunday Gazette on Feb. 8, 1885
February 6 & 7 (two performances on the 7th)- Plymouth Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
February 9 - Comstock's Opera House, Columbus, Ohio
February 11 - First Congregational Church, Oberlin, Ohio
February 12 - Whitney's, Detroit, Michigan
February 13 - London, Canada
February 14 - Toronto, Canada
February 16 - Brockville, Canada
February 17 - Ottawa, Canada
February 18 & 19 - Queen's Hall, Montreal, Canada
February 18 - post performance speech at Tuque Bleue Snowshoe Club, Montreal Canada - impromptu speech.
See Guy Cardwell's Twins of Genius, p. 63.
February 20 - Saratoga, New York
February 21 - New York, New York
February 23 - Opera House, New Haven, Connecticut (announced in New Haven Evening Register, February 18 and 21, and 23, 1885)
February 26 - Philadelphia, Pa.
February 27 - Oratorio Hall, Baltimore, Maryland
February 28 - Congregational Church, Washington, D.C.

March 31 - Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton, New York City - "On Speech-Making Reform"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 190-193.

April 9 - Actors Fund Fair, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Speech and readings
Some text published in Mark Twain Speaking, p. 194.
The New York Times on April 10, 1885 reported that Twain gave a reading "The Tragic Tale of the Fishwife." The Philadelphia Public Ledger and Daily Transcript of April 10, 1885 also reported that Twain read "The Tragic Tale of the Fishwife."

April 9 - Clover Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Dinner Speech - text not available.

April 28 - American Copyright League Benefit, New York City - Reading - text not available.

April 29 - Authors Readings, Madison Square Theater, New York City - Reading "Trying Situation" - text not available
At this matinee performance Mark Twain startled everybody by appearing in formal evening dress. As reported by the World next day he explained: "I knew it would he night before they reached me, and so I came in evening dress." From Madison Square Garden he went on to a dinner of Cornell alumni at Morelli's.

April 29 - Cornell Alumni Dinner, New York City - Dinner Speech - text not available

May 1 - Vassar, Poughkeepsie, New York - Reading - "Trying Situation" and "Golden Arm"

June 5 and 6 - Art Society Benefit, Hartford, Connecticut -

Readings - "King Sollermun," "German Lesson," "Trying Situation," "Short Story"

October 7 - Wednesday Morning Club, Pittsfield, Massachusetts - Reading - "Mental Telegraphy"

November 19 - White House, Washington, D.C. - Impromptu speech on copyright - text not available
According to Fatout, in Notebook 20, August 20, 1885 - January 20, 1886, MTP, Mark Twain says that, accompanied by Johnson of the Century and George Walton Green of the Authors Copyright League, he called on President Cleveland and "wandered into a speech" on international copyright, which evolved into a spirited discussion by all four. The president promised to stress the subject in his next message to Congress.

From Budd's update:
Late December - Kent Club, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut - Speech - text not available
Mentioned in Shelley Fisher Fishkin's Lighting Out for the Territory, pp. 103-104.

1886
January 18 - Typothetae Dinner, Delmonico's, New York City - "The Compositor"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 200-202.
From Budd's update:
See a possibly better text in American Bookmaker, 2 (Feb. 1886), pp. 55-56.

January 28 & 29 - Senate Committee, Washington, D.C. - Remarks on Copyright
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 206-209.

March 22 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - "Knights of Labor" also titled "The New Dynasty"
Published in Mark Twain, Collected Tales, Sketches, Sppeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America, 1992, pp. 883-890.

April 3 - West Point, New York - Readings - "The Awful German Language," "An American Party," and "Jumping Frog"
Published in Mark Twain & West Point, pp. 158-195.

April 22 - Authors Club, Gilsey House, New York City - Reading - "Our Children"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 210-211.
Budd:
See a differing summary in "Our New York Letter," Literary World (Boston), 17 (May 1886) 152; perhaps Twain spoke twice, once truly impromptu.

May 6 - West Point, New York - Readings - text not available

July 3 - Rand Park, Keokuk, Iowa Speech
Printed in the Keokuk Weekly Constitution, July 7, 1886, page 1.
Online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/July4-1886.html

July 21 - Reformatory, Elmira, New York. Readings - "German," "Whistling," "Trying Situation," "King Sollermun"
From Budd's update:
For a first-hand account see The Summary, 4 (25 July 1886) - the inhouse weekly.

October 11 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "A Protest Against Taking the Pledge" - text not available

November 6 - Saturday Morning Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading or Remarks - text not available

November 11 - Military Service Institution, Governors Island, New York - "Yankee Smith of Camelot"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 211-213.

November 29 - Authors Readings, New York City - Reading - text not available

December 9 - Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts - Introducing Henry M. Stanley
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 214-215.

1887
February 10 - Stationers Board of Trade, Hotel Brunswick, New York City - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 216-218.

February 26 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - "Machine Culture" - text not available

March 17 - The Kinsmen, New York City - Speech - text not available
According to Paul Fatout, the Kinsmen was a club without dues, clubhouse, officers or bylaws. It was established by Lawrence Barrett, the name suggested by Laurence Hutton to symbolize practitioners of kindred arts who made up the membership. Mark Twain attended as the guest of Hutton in 1883. Other Kinsmen, American and British, were William Dean Howells, Frank D. Millet, T. B. Aldrich, H. C. Bunner, E. A. Abbey, Anthony Hope, Edwin Booth, Brander Matthews, Joe Jefferson, August St. Gaudens, Pinero, Bram Stoker, Forbes Robertson, John Singer Sargent, Henry Irving, Julian Hawthorne, Andrew Lang, and Edmund Gosse. For further information, see Laurence Hutton's, Talks in a Library, page 326-28 and Brander Matthews, The Tocsin of Revolt, page 255.

March 31 - Authors Readings for Longfellow Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts. - "English as She is Taught"

March 31 - Kent Club, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut - "English as She is Taught"
Mark Twain's scheduled appearance was reported in the New Haven Register, March 31, 1887, p. 4.

April 1 - Gymnasium Exhibition, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech
Text published in Hartford Daily Courant, April 2, 1887, p. 3, "The Gymnasium Exhibition."
Text online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/Gymnastics.html

April 8 - Union Veterans Association of Maryland Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland - "An Author's Soldiering"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 219-221.

April 13 - Supper for John Drew and Ada Rehan, Daly's Theatre, New York City - Supper Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 222-224.

April 27 - Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, Central Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 225-227.

From Budd's update::
April 30 - U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York - Reading - "English as She Is Taught"
See Philip W. Leon, Mark Twain & West Point, p. 137.

November 28 - Authors Readings, New York City - "Fatal Anecdote" - text not available

December 5 - Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "Consistency" - text not available

December 20 - Congregationalist Club, Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. "Post-prandial Oratory"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 230-234.

December 31 - Authors Club, Watch Night, New York City. Story - text not available

1888
January 6 - Founding of Players Club, Delmonico's, New York City - Speech - text not available
Prime movers were Edwin Booth and Augustin Daly. Among charter members who gathered at Delmonico's were Mark Twain, William Bispham, Lawrence Barrett, John Drew, Laurence Hutton, Joe Jefferson, Brander Matthews, Stephen H. Olin, General Sherman.

February 3 - Yale Alumni Association, Seminary Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - two readings - "The Burial of Buck Fanshaw" and "Encounter with an Interviewer"
Reported in New Haven Evening Register, February 4, 1888, p. 4 which stated, "Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was then introduced by President Twichell, who siad that he need not feel afraid, as he was among his friends. Mr. Clemens first took occassion to pay a worthy tribute to Mr. Twichell's personal beauty, and said that no crown ever graced a head as kingly as the prohibiton gray locks of the esteemed president."

February 27 - Historical Class, Hartford, Connecticut. Reading or Remarks - text not available

March 17 - Soldiers Home, Washington, D.C. - Reading - text not available

March 17 - Authors Readings to aid international copyright - Congregational Church, Washington, D.C. - text not available
According to the Boston Globe of March 18, p. 1, Mrs. Grover Cleveland was in attendance. Readers were Mark Twain, Richard Watson Gilder, Dr. Edward Eggleston, J. Whitcomb Riley, Colonel Thomas Knox and William Dean Howells. The readers were introduced by E. C. Stedman.
According to the Hartford Daily Courant of March 19, 1888, p. 1, in an article titled "The National Capital" -- Mark Twain took the place of Charles Dudley Warner who was delayed due to a snow storm.The Courant printed quotes from Twain's speech and reported that he told the story of how he escaped fighting a duel.

The Macon (GA) Telegraph, March 25, 1888, p. 2 reprinted a report from the Washington Post quoting Twain as saying, "There are 8,000 men working along the Hartford road night and day, actuated by the one common impulse to dig Mr. Warner out. I had intended to have my wife here for the moral support which her presence in the audience would give me, but she, too, is snowed up. So you see my circumstances are even more pathetic than Mr. Warner's."

March 19 - Authors Readings, Congregational Church, Washington, D.C. - "Encounter with an Interviewer"
According to the Washington Post of March 20, 1888, Twain read "Encounter with an Interviewer." President and Mrs. Cleveland were in attendance. Also on the program were Thomas Nelson Page, Richard Malcom Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Charles Dudley Warner, James Whitcomb Riley, Edward EgglestonH. J. Boyesen, and Thomas Knox.
In Mark Twain's Autobiography, 2:147-51, Mark Twain says that, as usual, the readers ran far overtime. Having been invited to the White House, he finally got there too late to see President and Mrs. Cleveland who had left for a dinner engagement.

March 23 - House Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C. - Speech on Copyright
Reported in the Washington Post of March 24, 1888 in an article which paraphrased the speech. The Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, March 24, 1888, p. 1 also provided a summary of the speech including the points where laughter was forthcoming. The speech was also reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24, 1888, p. 8.

April 27 - Supper for Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, New York City - Speech - "Moses Who?" - text not available
According to Paul Fatout, Augustin Daly was host on this occasion and invited General Sherman, Chauncey Depew, Matthews, General Porter, William Winter, James Whitcomb Riley, Sol Eytinge, Lester Wallack, Ada Rehan, Effie Shannon, and Lillian Russell. Mark Twain told the "Moses who?" story and about talked about international copyright.

April 29 - Breakfast for Edwin Booth, New York City - Remarks - text not available
Henry Irving was host at this gathering of Kinsmen. Charles Dudley Warner, T. B. Aldrich, Whitelaw Reid, Lester Wallack, and William Winter attended.

September 11 - Reformatory, Elmira, New York - Readings - text not available

October 30 - Mugwump Political Rally, Allyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech - text not available
Reported and summarized in Hartford Daily Courant, October 31, 1888, p. 8, "Mugwumps in Council."

December 6 - Gathering for Edith Wilder Smith, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading - "King Arthur and the Yankee"

1889
January 17 - Baltimore, Maryland - Readings - readings from the unpublished A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and an encore about his dueling in experience in Virginia City, Nevada..
When the wife of Thomas Nelson Page died suddenly, Mark Twain substituted for him in Baltimore. Also on the program was Richard Malcolm Johnston, to whom Mark Twain gave all the receipts for the evening.
The speech was reported in the Baltimore Sun, in an article titled, "Readings by Authors," January 18, 1889, Supplement, page 1.

January 21 - Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. - "Lucerne Girl," "Tar Baby," "Andrea del Sarto, " "German Lesson," "Interviewer," "Bluejay," "Baker's Cat," "Golden Arm"
Mark Twain admitted to his notebook that this program was too long by at least a half hour.

From Budd's update:
February 2 - Ladies' Literary Association, Prof. W. D. Cabell's resident on Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.C. - Speech
Reprinted by Louis J. Budd in "A Rediscovered Mark Twain Speech: New Laws and Old Yarns," Essays in Arts and Sciences, 23 (Oct. 1994), 59-66.

February 6 - Yale Alumni, Foot Guard Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 235-237.
A second, undelivered speech prepared for this same occasion on the topic of "Girard College and Religion" was published in Meridian, The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 37-39.

February 9 - South Baptist Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Readings - text not available

February 25 - Trinity College Alumni, New York City - Dinner Speech - "The College President"
Text of speech published in Hartford Daily Courant, February 26, 1889, p. 3. The speech was in honor of Twain's friend Dr. George Williamson Smith, a clergyman and President of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
A lengthy quote from the speech is online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/President.html

February 27 - Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut - Speech - text not available

February 28 - Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts - Introducing Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye and James Whitcomb Riley
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 238-239.
An unidentified clipping, MTP, described Mark Twain as "a frowsy-headed, round-shouldered man, as gray as a rat, yet still vigorous in spite of his years," who "tottered on to the platform" followed by "two ambiguous-looking orphans in dress suits and goldbowed spectacles."
From Budd's update:
For a highly similar but not identical version see Frank Wilson Nye, Bill Nye: His Own Life Story (1926), pp. 229-231. J. B. Pond hired a stenographer to take down Twain's speech.

March 6 - Wednesday Morning Club, Pittsfield, Massachusetts - Story or Remarks - text not available

March 7 - Authors Readings for international copyright, Boston Museum, Boston, Massachusetts - Reading - "New England Weather"
Reported in the Boston Globe, March 8, 1889, p. 4. Also on the program were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Dudley Warner, Julia Ward Howe, Richard Malcom Johnston, F. Hopkinson Smith, John Boyle O'Reilly, George Washington Cable, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp.100-103.

March 30 - Supper for Edwin Booth, Delmonico's, New York City - "The Long Clam"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 241-243.

April 1 or 2 - Mrs. Hamersley's, New York City. Readings - "Encounter with an Interviewer" and possibly others - text not available
See Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Vol. III (1883-1891), p. 446

April 8 - Baseball Dinner, New York City - "The Grand Tour-1. The Sandwich Islands"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 244-247.
Online at: http://www.twainquotes.com/TwainBaseball.html

From Budd's update:
April 9 - Unknown location, probably in New York City - Reading - text not available
See Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Vol. III (1883-1891), p. 446

April 13 - Miss Brown's, New York City - Reading - "True Story," "Uncle Remus"

May 11 - Saturday Morning Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Readings - "Isaac Muleykeh," "King Arthur," "Interviewer," "Christening"

May 15 - Ology Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Dinner Speech - text not available

May 22 - Talcott Street Church, Hartford, Connecticut - Readings - "Skinned Man," "Mate and Governor Gardiner," "Whistling," "Interviewer"

From Budd's update:
June 26 - Yale Alumni Banquet, New Haven, Connecticut - Speech - text not available
See New Haven Morning Journal and Courier, 27 June, p. 2.

October 9 - Banquet for American International Congress, Allyn House, Hartford, Connecticut - Remarks - text not available
See Hartford Courant, "America in Connecticut: The Banquet," 10 October, p. 1.

November 12 - Press Club, Boston, Massachusetts - Dinner Speech - text not available

November 15 - Fellowcraft Club, New York City - Dinner Speech
The Fellowcraft Club was an organization of magazine writers and illustrators.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 247-250.

November 28 - Young Men's Christian Association (Y. M. C. A.), Reading Room, Hartford, Connecticut, Thanksgiving Dinner - Speech
Text of speech and summary published in Hartford Daily Courant, November 29, 1889, p. 1 "Thanksgiving Exercises"

December 31 - Authors Club Watch Night, New York City - Story - text not available

1890
January 11 - West Point, New York. - Readings - from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
See Philip Leon's Mark Twain and West Point, p. 137.

January 20 - Broadway Theatre, New York City - Curtain Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 256-257.

April 27 - Max O'Rell Dinner, Everett House, Boston, Massachusetts - "On Foreign Critics"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 257-260.

April 29 - Open Hearth benefit, Foot Guard Hall, Hartford, Connecticut - Reading from A Connecticut Yankee
Reported in Hartford Daily Courant, April 29, 1890, p. 2, "Open Hearth Concert Tonight"

May 10 - Saturday Morning Club, Hartford, Connecticut - Remarks - text not available

July 4 - Informal Gathering, Onteora, New York - Story - "Golden Arm"

September (?) National Wholesale Druggists Association Banquet, Washington, D.C. - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 261-262.

September 12 - Storey Dinner, New York City. Dinner Speech - text not available
Moorfield Storey (1845-1929), lawyer and publicist, was a leader of the Mugwumps who opposed Blaine in 1884, and a prominent spokesman of the Anti-Imperialist League, which was opposed to American meddling in the Philippines.

October 9 - Roger A. Pryor Dinner, Astor House, New York City - Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 263-264.

1891
March 23 - Bryn Mawr College, Bryn, Pennsylvania - Stories and Readings - "Christening," "True Story," "Tar Baby," "Whistling," "Golden Arm"
According to the Philadelphia Record, as reprinted in the Grass Valley, California Daily Tidings, April 21, 1891, Mark Twain said: "I have been elected an honorary member of the class of '94. I feel deeply grateful to my fellow classmates for the compliment they have done me, the more so because I feel I have never deserved such treatment. I will reveal a secret to you. I have an ambition: that I may go up and up on the ladder of education until at last I may be a professor of Bryn Mawr College. I would be a professor of telling anecdotes. This art is not a very high one, but it is a very useful one. One class of anecdotes is that which contains only words. You begin almost as you please and talk and talk until your allotted time and close when you get ready. I will illustrate this by a story of an Irish and Scotch christening." [He told the christening story and others.] This item was also reprinted in the Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1891, p. 6.

His daughter, Susy, was a student at Bryn Mawr at the time. When her father, who had promised her that he would not tell the story of the "Golden Arm," forgot himself and told it, she became much upset and rushed out in tears. See Susy and Mark Twain, ed. Edith Colgate Salsbury (1965): 287-88; Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966):310.

April 22 - Authors Readings, New York City - Story - text not available

1892
January 13 - Y.M.C.A. Hall, Berlin, Germany - Readings - text not available

January (?) - Gewerberhaus, Berlin, Germany - Readings - text not available

May 25 - Congregational Chapel, Berlin, Germany - Readings - text not available

July 14 - S.S. Lahn, at sea - Readings - text not available
In a mock trial, Mark Twain was accused and convicted of unscientific lying. Sentenced to read three hours from his books, he did so, aloud.
See Washington Post, November 13, 1892 article titled "Twain In Durance Vile; Ludicrous Trials of a Humorist in the Middle of the Ocean"

From Budd's update:
Before September 26 - Literary Congress, Milan, Italy - Speech - text not available
Twain spoke on copyright; see New York Times, October 16, 1892, p. 20.
The Times article written by William Henry Bishop reported: "The official language of the convention was French;… Mark Twain, arriving by opportune accident en route with his family for Florence, made the only one in English."

1893
April 6 - Carnegie Dinner, New York City - Dinner Speech - text not available

October 17 - Oxford Club, Brooklyn, New York - Dinner Speech - "Watermelon Story"
Reported in Brooklyn Eagle, October 18, 1893, p. 5 which reported Twain's speech in detail. The speech included the watermelon story. The function was presided over by President Berri. Guests were Samuel L. Clemens, Colonel John A. Cockerill, John Brisbin Walker, Mural Halstead, William Cullen Bryan, General A. C. Barnes.

From Budd's update:
November 4 - Uncut Leaves Society, New York City - Reading - text not available
See John D. Barry, "New York Letter," Literary World (Boston), 24 (18 Nov. 1893) p. 385.
The Hartford Daily Courant, November 11, 1893, p. 4 "Society Notes" reported that Clemens and Kate Douglas Wiggins were among the readers.

November 11 - Lotos Club, 558 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Dinner Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 265-267.
The New York Times, November 12, 1893 also published a version of the speech.

November 19 - Henry Irving - Ellen Terry Dinner, New York City - Possible dinner Speech - text not available

November 20 - According to Paul Fatout: St. Andrews Society, New York City - Dinner Speech - text not available
According to The New York Times, November 21, Twain attended a dinner for The Fencers Club at 37 West 22nd Street on the evening of November 20.

November 26 - Henry Irving Dinner, Delmonico's, New York City - Possible dinner Speech - text not available

November 27 - Manhattan Club, New York City - Dinner Speech - text not available

December 1 - Mackay Dinner, Players Club, New York City - Remarks or Story - text not available
John William Mackay (1831-1902) was one of the four bonanza kings who made fortunes on the Comstock Lode of Nevada in the 1870s. He was an affable, unpretentious, generous man fond of music and the theater. The dinner, given by the Players Club, had somewhat the flavor of miners' fare: soup, raw oysters, corned beef and cabbage. Mark Twain, who arrived about midnight, described the guests as gray-haired veterans of the Pacific Coast, with whom he swapped yarns about old times. He said he did his full share of the talking until about 1:30 A.M. See Paine's edition of Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 2, page 597.

December 20 - Brander Matthews Dinner - Dinner Speech
See The Critic, December 30, 1893, p. 432 for the date.
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 269-270.

1894
January 13 - Mrs. Carrol Beckwith, New York City - Readings or Stories - text not available

January 18 - Authors Club, New York City - Remarks - text not available

January 19 - Stanford White Dinner, New York City - Dinner Speech - text not available

January 25 - Authors Readings, Boston, Massachusetts - Reading - text not available

January (?) Musical Evening, New York City - Stories - "Scotch-Irish Christening" and "B. E. Martin and the Etchings"
This party occurred at a house near the Players Club. Some thirty musical ladies and gentlemen were there, also a Hungarian band. After a midnight supper, there was dancing until 4:30 A.M. "By half past four," said Mark Twain, "I had danced all those people down--and yet was not tired; merely breathless." See Paine's edition of Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, p. 605.

January 31 - Mrs. Gertrude Cowdon, New York City - Readings or Stories - text not available

February (?) - Robert Reid's Studio, New York City - Readings or Stories - text not available
Robert Reid (1862-1929) was an American painter. At Reid's studio the party included: Constant Coquelin, Richard Harding Davis, Nikola Tesla, John Drew, Anders Zorn, William H. Chase, and others. The party went on until 4 A.M.

February 17 - Charles Hoyt Dinner, New York City - Dinner Speech - text not available
Charles Hoyt (1860-1900) was a playwright and manager had been dramatic critic, sports editor, and columnist on Boston Post (1878-83), then became lessee of the Garrick Madison Square Theatres. He wrote a number of popular farces of which the most successful was A Trip to Chinatown (1891).

February 22 - Town Hall Dedication, Fairhaven, Massachusetts - "Advice"
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 271-273.

February 26 & 27 - Reading With James Whitcomb Riley and Douglass Sherley, Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New York City - "Jumping Frog," "Company of Mean Men," and "Oudinot"
See The New York Times, February 27, 1894.

March 3 Unidentified Function, New York City - Reading - text not available

March 4 - Aldine Club Story Tellers Night, New York City - Story - text not available

From Budd's update:
April 5 - Ballroom, British Embassy, Paris, France, for benefit of American and English schools - Reading - text not available
See Le Temps, April 7, p. 3.
Annuonced in Wheeling (WVa) Register, April 6, 1894, p. 1 with dateline Paris, April 5.

May 18 - London, dinner for officers for United States naval cruiser Chicago hosted by Poultney Bigelow - speech - text not available.
Reported in New Haven Register, May 18, 1894, p. 1. Datelined London, May 18

July 22 - Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, New York City - Reading - "Rev. Samuel Jones's Reception in Heaven"
Samuel Porter Jones (1847-1906) was an American temperance advocate. A Georgia lawyer who drank too much, he converted to Methodism (1872), and became a famous exhorter of the damnation-and-brimestone variety. He denounced profanity as well as liquor, often so heatedly that his own language
became spectacularly profane. See H. L. Mencken, "Hell and Its Outskirts," New Yorker (October 23, 1948).

July 25 - Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, New York City - Reading - "Playing Courier"

August 20 - Benefit for the Seaman's orphanage at Southampton and the Blue Anchor Society at Staten Island, aboard steamship PARIS - Readings - "The German Lesson" and "The Fishwoman"
Reported in Brooklyn Eagle, "A Mid-Ocean Letter," September 9, 1894, p. 5. Letter dated August 22 refers to the affair as "last Monday."

1895
February 14 - Y.P.S.C.E., 17 Rue St., Florentin, Paris, France - "Fifteen Minutes with Mark Twain" - text not available
An autographed theatre program for the Y.P.S.C.E. (Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor) was auctioned by Brunk Auctions, 117 Tunnel Road, Asheville, NC 28805 via ebay on January 8, 2006 (ebay item 6590792883).

March 25 - Cramp's Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 274-275.

May 17 - American Seaman's Friend Society, aboard steamship NEW YORK - Readings - text not available
Reported in Brooklyn Eagle, May 18, 1895, p. 2.

May 22 - Herald Square Theatre, New York City - Curtain Speech for Pudd'nhead Wilson
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 276-278.
Also reported in The New York Times, May 23, 1895.

July 12 - House of Refuge, Randall's Island, New York - Lecture - text not available
The lecture was a rehearsal for Twain's upcoming World Tour.

July 13 - Reformatory, Elmira, New York. Lecture - text not available

July 15, 1895 - July 15, 1896 - World Speaking Tour: United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ceylon, Mauritius South Africa: about 140 engagements.
Topics included "Morals Lecture" - Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 279-286 and "His Grandfather's Old Ram" - Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 289-292.
Also see Steve Railton's website at the University of Virginia for more details on the North American portion of the tour including map, letters, and reviews.
The North America portion of the world tour was under the management of James B. Pond and included the following cities:

July 15 & 16 - Stillman House, Cleveland, Ohio
July 18 - Soo Opera House or Hotel Iroquois, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
July 19 - Casino Room, Grand Hotel, Mackinac, Michigan
July 20 - Grand Opera House, Petoskey, Michigan
July 21 - Casino Room, Grand Hotel, Mackinac, Michigan
July 22 - Spalding Hotel, Duluth, Minnesota
July 23 - Hotel West, Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 23 - Reception and Supper, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Supper Speech - text not available
July 24 - Hotel Ryan, St. Paul, Minnesota
July 26 -27 - The Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
July 27 - Luncheon, Winnipeg, Canada - Speech - text not available
July 27 - Manitoba Club Supper, Winnipeg, Canada -. Supper Speech - text not available
July 29 - Crookston Hotel, Crookston, Minnesota - included readings from "Adam's Diary" and "The Golden Arm"
July 31 - Opera House, Great Falls, Montana
July 31 - Electric Club Supper, Great Falls. Supper Speech - text not available
August 1 - Butte Hotel, Butte, Montana
August 1 - Supper, Butte, Montana Supper - Speech - text not available
August 2 - The Montana, Anaconda, Montana
August 3 & 4 - Hotel Helena, Helena, Montana
August 3 - Montana Club Supper, Helena, Montana - Supper Speech - text not available
August 5 - Missoula, Montana
August 7 - The Spokane, Spokane, Washington
August 9 - Portland, Oregon
August 9 - Arlington Club Supper, Portland, Oregon - Supper Speech - text not available
August 10 - The Olympia, Olympia, Washington
August 12 - The Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington
August 12 - Tacoma, Washington Reception given by Mrs. George Turner - Story
Reported in Tacoma Daily News, 17 August 1895, "A Pleasant Afternoon with Mark Twain", p. [8] gives text of story. Also An article titled "Mark Twain's Story" by Bernice E. Newell was published in the Los Angeles Times, October 1895 which reported:
"Mark Twain visited Tacoma recently, taking in the "City of Destiny" on his way to Australia. While here he and Mrs. Clemens and their daughter Claire were entertained by their old-time friends Mrs. Judge Turner and Mrs. Frank Allyn, the wife and daughter of the late George Turner, Chief Justice of Nevada during the great mining days, who made his first overland trip in a stage coach with Mr. Clemens, then a young man of 26. Before a small company, invited in informally to meet them, Mr. Clemens consented to tell a story…" Newell's article reprints Twain's story about the unrecognized acquaintance whom Twain mistaked for a lightning rod salesman when he visited his home in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain gave similar versions of the story in a speech known as "Morals and Memory."
August 12 - Press Club Supper, Tacoma, Washington. Supper Speech
The Tacoma Morning Union of August 13, 1895, quoted a fragment of Mark Twain's speech: "As a rule a chairman at a banquet is an ass, but your chairman is not an ass. His plan is the best I have ever encountered. It gives the irresponsibles an opportunity to be heard before the guest of the evening is called upon. As a rule the man who is the guest of honor is introduced as the first speaker, and the more he is lauded, the more difficult it is for him to speak. Every compliment ties his tongue."
August 13 - The Ranier, Seattle, Washington
August 14 - New Whatcom, Washington
August 15 - Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 21 & 22 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
August 21 - Press Club Supper, Victoria - Supper Speech - text not available

The second half of the world tour was under the management of Robert Sparrow Smythe and his son Carlyle Greenwood Smythe and included the following cities:

September 13 - Dinner with Governor, Suva, Fiji Islands - Dinner speech - text not available
September 18 - Athenaeum Club, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Dinner Speech - text not available
September 19, 21, 23, 24 - Protestant Hall, 236-240 Castlereagh Street Sydney. New South Wales, Australia
September 27, 28, 30, October 1, 2 - Bijou Theatre, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
September 28 - Yorick Club Dinner, Melbourne, Australia Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 292-298 (Fatout misdates this speech.).
See Miriam Jones Shillingburg, At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia, p. 66.
October 12, 14, 15, 16 - Theatre Royal, Adelaide, South Australia
October 12 - Late Party, Adelaide, South Australia - Speech or Story - text not available
The Adelaide South Australian Register said, October 15, 1895: "Mark Twain had rather a lively and congenial social after his lecture on Saturday night amongst friends with whom wit was rampant and flourished till the 'wee sma' hoors ayont the twal.' "
October 14 - Mayor's Parlor, Adelaide, South Australia - Remarks
See Miriam Jones Shillingburg, At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia, p. 83.
Of Mark Twain's speech, the South Australian Register of October 15 said: "He was reminded that Adelaide possessed advantages over America . . . in that the city government was honest. He had tried himself to introduce improvements in his own way, but not always with success, but he would like to state that honest civic governments were really the rule in America. There was always a fly in the amber, but which was the particular amber the fly got into was the question; anyway it was the fly that got the amber into discredit." Speaking of the Australian landscape, he said "He recognized the grass, but the trees were new to him. However, Mr. Murphy [C. A. Murphy, American consul] knew all about the trees, and described everything about the country. He did not care whether the information was correct or not, for all he wanted was information and plenty of it."
October 17 - Mechanics' Hall, Horsham, Victoria, Australia
October 18 - Town Hall, Stawell, Victoria, Australia
October 21 & 22 - Mechanics' Institute, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
October 23 & 24 - Royal Princess Theatre, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
October 23 - Dinner, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia - Dinner Speech - text not available
October 25 - Mayor's Welcome, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia - Remarks
See Miriam Jones Shillingburg, At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia, p. 110.
October 25 - Town Hall, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia
October 26 - Saturday matinee, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
See Miriam Jones Shillingburg, At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia, p. 116.
October 27 - Smoke Night, Australian Institute of Journalists, Cathedral Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - 4 speeches
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 298-301
October 28 - Exhibition Theatre, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
October 29 - Town Hall, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
November 5 - Theatre Royal, Invercargill, South Island, New Zealand
November 6, 7, 8 - City Hall, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
November 9 - Timaru, South Island, New Zealand
November 11 - Theatre Royal, Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand
November 13, 14, 15 - Theatre Royal, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
November 15 - Savage Club Supper, Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand. -Supper Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 302-304.
November 16 - Canterbury Club Luncheon, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand - Remarks - text not available
November 21 & 22 - Old City Hall, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
November 25 - Opera House, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
November 28 - Theatre Royal, Napier, North Island, New Zealand
December 2 - Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
December 3 & 4 - Odd Fellows' Hall, Wanganui, North Island, New Zealand
December 5 - Drill Hall, Hawera, North Island, New Zealand
December 6 - Alexandra Hall, New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
December 10 & 11 - Opera House, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
December 10 - Wellington Club Supper, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand - Supper Speech - text not available
December 11 - Minister for Maori Affairs Dinner, Wellington, New Zealand - Dinner Speech - text not available
December 19 - Scone, New South Wales, Australia
December 20 & 21 - School of Arts, Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
December 26 & 27 - Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
December 30 & 31 - Adelaide, South Australia
December 30 - Commemoration Luncheon, Glenelg, South Australia - Speech
Published in Mark Twain Speaking, pp. 305-307.
An article titled "Australians Ridicule War; References to the Venzuelan Question at a Banquet in Adelaid" in The Washington Post, Dec. 31, 1895, p. 11 states: "A banquet was held at Adelaide to celebrate Foundation Day, and many patriotic speeches were made. Hon. James Henry Young, the Minister of Works of New South Wales, who is American born, ridiculed the idea of war. Mark Twain was also present and echoed the statement that talk of war between blood relations was absurd."
December 30 - Mayor's Reception, Adelaide, South Australia - Remarks - text not available

1896

January 24, 27, 28 - Novelty Theatre, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
January 27 - Bombay Club Dinner, Bombay, Maharashtra, India - Dinner Speech - text not available
January 29 - Poona Gymkhana, Poona, Maharashtra, India
January 31 - Durbar Hall of the Laxmi Vilas Palace, Baroda, Gujarat, India
February 3