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To: epicure who wrote (95922)	2/12/2005 10:33:05 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I went and pulled it down. It is called "Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii" by A. Grove Day, amazon.com A more detailed description: etext.lib.virginia.edu 1866 Letters from Hawaii At the start of Chapter 62, MT briefly tells the story of how in 1866 he wound up satisfying his "vagabond instinct" by getting "a new berth and a delightful one" as a correspondent to the Sandwich Islands for the Sacramento Union. He stayed four months in the Islands (from March to June, 1866), writing twenty-five letters for the Union that were published between April and November. His reports were widely read, and he may have tried revising them into a book in 1866-1867, even before the Quaker City excursion to Europe. He hadn't planned to use the Hawaiian experience in Roughing It, but he ran out of inspiration and material before reaching the length Bliss and subscription readers were expecting. Working either from his own scrapbook copies of the Union letters, or possibly from a book manuscript based on them that is now lost, he wound up using parts of thirteen letters in the fifteen Hawaiian chapters of Roughing It. You can read four representative letters here, along with an interactive feature that will allow you to compare his 1866 newspaper reportage with his 1872 book: ....>>>