(Clemens, Samuel L.)

"The Sandwich Islands. Views of Mark Twain. … Concluding Views of Mark Twain. The Government—Prince Bill—Whisky and Awa—A Specimen Minister—Reasons for Anexation," in New York Tribune Lectures and Letters—Extra Sheet, [January 1873]



Newspaper, 4 pages folio (22 1/4 x 18 3/8 in.; 565 x 465 mm), text in six columns; browned; long fold separations (more severe to first leaf). Folded in a half maroon morocco portfolio.

cf. Johnson, Mark Twain, p. 98

First complete printing of one of Clemens's most celebrated travelogues; the two parts had appeared separately in the regular issues of the Tribune for 6 and 9 January 1873. Clemens's letters occupy 5 full columns of the final page. The other authors represented in this "Extra Sheet" are Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Henry W. Bellows, and James T. Fields.