5 December 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 09848)
The article never was published in America. The book containing it may possibly be had at Routledge’s, 416 Broome Ⓐemendation st., New York—agents of the London house.1explanatory note
The article was “Cannibalism in the Cars,” first published in the November 1868 number of The Broadway: A London Magazine (SLC 1868). It was reprinted in three collections published in London by George Routledge and Sons: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (SLC 1870, 171–84); Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County And other Sketches. With the Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance (SLC 1872 [MT01065], 171–84); and Mark Twain’s Sketches (SLC 1872 [MT01064], 323–35) (ET&S1, 671–72; L4 , 65 n. 3).
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- Anderson Auction Company. Catalogue of the Collection of Augustus Toedteberg. Part 4. No. 324. Sale of 14 October. New York: Anderson Auction Company. 1904
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). “Cannibalism in the Cars.” Broadway: A London Magazine, n.s. 1 (November): 189–94. 1868
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches. London: George Routledge and Sons. 1870
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. With the Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance. London: George Routledge and Sons. 1872
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Sketches. Selected and Revised by the Author. Copyright Edition. London: George Routledge and Sons. 1872
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L6 , 305.
The present location of the MS, offered for sale in 1904 as part of the collection of Augustus Toedteberg (Anderson Auction Company 1904, lot 132), is not known; the photocopy was provided by Thomas Tenney.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.