Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field : tales they told to a fellow correspondent

Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer, Merle De Vore Johnson

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. ABROAD WITH MARK TWAIN AND EUGENE FIELD ABROAD WITH MARK TWAIN andEUGENE FIELD Tales aFellowTheyToldto Correspondent By HENRYW.FISHER L.BROWNNICHOLAS NETWORK MCMXXII COPYRIGHT, 1922 h NICHOLAS L. BROWN P Sissl Fir MA IK/ To MARIAN PHELPS (Mrs. Phelps-Pcters) whose and clevernessyouth, beauty Mark Twain in hisdelighted troubled Berlin days. 4831 19 EDITOR S NOTE in Fisher and I wereAlong /pop, working the same Fisher as afor newspaper, special writer and I in the art We bothdepartment. but isthat anotherescaped\subsequently story. then I to be on theJust happened working BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (Harpery Fisher told me that he was to1910). going do some stories on Mark andmagazine prom ised to let me have but a week or twoproofs, later he went on one hisaway of periodical to and I lost track himtrips Europe, of for severalyears. Some time in 1 met him on1921, Broadway, New York. "where"Hello, Fisher," says I, arehave what and whereyou been, you doing, are whiskers used tothose flowing you sport?" "Hello, Fisher,Johnson," replied peering at me his thick "I amthrough glasses, just back the air raids scaredLondon,from off my and has become sowhiskers, my eyesight bad, " Iam to be a dictator now.only fit our conversation "Well)" says I, continuing "where are those Markof many years ago, " Twain me?

Sujets

• Author
• 19th century
• Field
• TWAIN

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 26
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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.ABROAD WITH MARK TWAIN
AND EUGENE FIELDABROAD WITH
MARK TWAIN
andEUGENE FIELD
Tales aFellowTheyToldto Correspondent
By
HENRYW.FISHER
L.BROWNNICHOLAS
NETWORK MCMXXIICOPYRIGHT, 1922
h
NICHOLAS L. BROWNP Sissl
Fir
MA IK/
To
MARIAN PHELPS
(Mrs. Phelps-Pcters)
whose and clevernessyouth, beauty
Mark Twain in hisdelighted
troubled Berlin days.
4831 19EDITOR S NOTE
in Fisher and I wereAlong /pop, working
the same Fisher as afor newspaper, special
writer and I in the art We bothdepartment.
but isthat anotherescaped\subsequently story.
then I to be on theJust happened working
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (Harpery
Fisher told me that he was to1910). going
do some stories on Mark andmagazine prom
ised to let me have but a week or twoproofs,
later he went on one hisaway of periodical
to and I lost track himtrips Europe, of for
severalyears.
Some time in 1 met him on1921, Broadway,
New York. "where"Hello, Fisher," says I,
arehave what and whereyou been, you doing,
are whiskers used tothose flowing you sport?"
"Hello, Fisher,Johnson," replied peering
at me his thick "I amthrough glasses, just
back the air raids scaredLondon,from off my
and has become sowhiskers, my eyesight bad,
"
Iam to be a dictator now.only fit
our conversation
"Well)" says I, continuing
"where are those Markof many years ago,
"
Twain me?yarnsyou promised
had time to"In he "neversaid;my head,
hethem on "You know," added,put paper"
"
weeks and monthsoldMark andI spent many
and Vienna andin Berlin frequentlytogether
met and not to mention morein London Paris,
and Iif really put myout-of-the-way places,
mind to I can remember reams Markit, of
Vllare availableTwain s while others insayings,
anddiaries and such I on.notebooks, kept off
I aboutAnd come to think can tellof it, you
as welL IField over thereEugene happened
into an editorial whileLondon,occupy position
to set the Thames andGene tried afire failed,
poor chap."
"
"come to the studioThen," I, up anysays
to-morrow like. I will have aday, ifyou stenog
there and can startyou dictating yourrapher
stories and we shall set the world putlaughing,
"
them in a book.ting
Fisher and here s the book.did,
Twain and Field did not themexpatriate
extent other Americansselves to the of gifted
andBret Harte, Whistler,Henry James, Abbey
Twain settled down for months,Sargent yet
and even in various European countries^years,
while Field a hundred ortried, during days
to make a it in camore, go of London, before
to climate andpitulating home-hunger.
Previous these two Americanglimpses of great
severalhumorists their in Euduring sojourns
us almosthave come torope wholly through
letters to at home. atheir friends Of course,
man reveals to a extent in hishimself great
and even soprivate correspondence diaries, but, y
the is never he cannotcomplete; quitepicture
see as others see him. How Twainhimself
and Field to another American inappeared
is settheir environment here downstrange for
the time.first
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