1 “Mr. Mark Twain’s lecture next season will be ‘An Appeal in Behalf of Extending Suffrage to Boys.’ There has been so much loose writing about suffrage, and there are so many wild speeches made about it by the ladies (God bless ’em!), and such a general fuzzification and muzzification and deconcatenation of the whole matter, that it is quite time for a fresh departure” (“Personal,” New York Tribune, 16 June 71, 5).

2 “Mark Twain says that after writing his lecture on the rights of children, and still another one, he has thrown both aside and built a third, entitled, ‘Reminiscences of Some Pleasant Characters I Have Met.’ This, he says, covers his whole acquaintances—kings, humorists, lunatics, idiots, and all—and this alone he proposes to talk to his lyceum acquaintances next Winter” (“Personal,” New York Tribune, 29 June 71, 4).