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Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2

by Mark TWAIN (1835 - 1910)

The Reliable Contraband - New York Press Club Dinner, Elmonico's, June 5, 1869

This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to the University of Iowa for making them available for this Public Domain audio recording. They were compiled in the University of Iowa Press book entitled "Mark Twain Speaking" and are arranged, chronologically, from Twain's first authenticated public speech in 1864, to his last speech, exactly 7 months before he died. Extensive analysis (for instance how other publications interpreted identical interview sessions), notes, appendix and index are included in the printed work. - Summary by John Greenman

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Listen next episodes of Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2:
Advice - Dedication of Town Hall, Fairhaven, Massachusetts, February 22, 1894 , Advice to Youth - Saturday Morning Club, Boston, April 15, 1882 , After-Dinner Speech - Meeting of Americans, London, July 4, 1873 , An Author's Soldiering - Twenty-Second Reunion Banquet, Union Veterans Association of Maryland, Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, April 8, 1887 , Artemus Ward Lecture - Lecture Season 1871-72 , At a Dinner for Monsieur Fréchette of Quebec - Hotel Windsor, Holyoke, Massachusetts, January 31, 1882 , Bishop Speech - Between October 5 and 17, 1907 , Burlesque Temperance Lecture - Dinner Party for Clara Clemens, 21 Fifth Avenue, New York, December 31, 1906 , Curtain Speech - One Hundredth Performance of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York, Deccember 23, 1874 , Curtain Speech - Opening of Ah Sin, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, July 31, 1877 , Curtain Speech - Opening of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York, September 16, 1874 , Curtain Speech - Opening of The Prince and the Pauper, Broadway Theatre, New York, January 20, 1890 , Curtain Speech - Performance of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Herald Square Theatre, New York, May 22, 1895 , De Woman wid de Gold'n Arm - Reading Selection, First Used About 1881 and Often Thereafter , Dinner Speech - Anglo-American Club Banquet, Heidelberg, Germanay, Juy 4, 1878 , Dinner Speech - Associated Press Banquet, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York, September 19, 1906 , Dinner Speech - Banquet of Wheelmen, Springfield, Massachusetts, September 16 or 17, 1883 , Dinner Speech - Dinner for Brander Matthews, New York, ca. December 1893 , Dinner Speech - Dinner for Judge Robert A. Pryor, Astor House, New York, October 9, 1890 , Dinner Speech - Dinner for Mark Twain, Windsor Hotel, Montreal, December 8, 1881 , Dinner Speech - Dinner for Mark Twain, Yorick Club, Melbourne, Australia, October 3, 1895 , Dinner Speech - Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor, Delmonico's, New York, April 4, 1878 , Dinner Speech - Fellowcroft Club Dinner, New Yrok, November 15, 1889 , Dinner Speech - First Banquet, Missouri Society of New York, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, May 28, 1901 , Dinner Speech - Government House, Annapolis, Maryland, May 10, 1907 , Dinner Speech - Lord Mayor's Dinner for the Savage Club, Mansion House, London, June 29, 1907 , Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for Andrew Carnegie, March 17, 1909 , Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for General Horace Porter, New York, June 17, 1902 , Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., New York, March 23, 1901 , Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for Joseph H. Choate, New York, November 16, 1901 , Dinner Speech - Massachusetts Press Association, Boston, February 17, 1874 , Dinner Speech - National Wholesale Druggists Association Banquet, Washington, D.C., ca. September 1890 , Dinner Speech - New Vagabonds Club Dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Clemens, London, June 29, 1899 , Dinner Speech - New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital Dinner, Delmonicco's, New York, January 20, 1909 , Dinner Speech - Ninth Annual Renunion Banquet, Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, Central Hall, Hartford, April 27, 1887 , Dinner Speech - Putnam Phalanx Dinner for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, Allyn House, Hartford, Oct. 2, 1877 , Dinner Speech - Stanley Club, Paris, ca. April 1879 , Dinner Speech - Stationers Board of Trade Dinner, Hotel Brunswick, New York, February 10, 1887 , Dinner Speech - The Aldine Dinner, St. James Hotel, New York, Early February, 1872 , Dinner Speech - Twentieth Anniversary Dinner, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Hotel Savoy, New York, March 8, 1902 , Dinner Speech - Whitefriars Club, London, ca. Ocotber 1872 , Dinner Speech - Yale Alumni Association Dinner, Allyn Hall, Hartford, January 31, 1902 , Four Speeches - Smoke Night, Australian Institute of Journalists, Cathedral Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, October 27, 1895 , Funeral Oration Over the Grave of the Democratic Party - Republican Jollifiction, Opera House, Hartford, November 2, 1880 , His Grandfather's Old Ram - Told on the World Tour, 1895-96, and on Other Occasions , Huck Saves Jim - From Huckleberry Finn, a Reading Often Used from 1885 On , Impromptu Speech - Thirteenth Reunion, Army of the Tennessee, Haverly's Theater, Chicago. November 12, 1879 , Interview - Aboard S.S. Minneapolis, New York, June 8, 1907 , Interview - Bombay, India, ca. January 22, 1896 , Interview - Dockside, New York, July 22, 1907 , Interview - Hartford, Early December, 1889 , Interview - New York, April 13, 1908 , Interview - Vancouver, B.C. August 19, 1895 , Interview - Washington, D.C., December 7, 1906 , Introducing Dr. Henry Van Dyke - Late February or Early March, 1906 , Introducing Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye and James Whitcomb Riley - Tremont Temple, Boston, February 28, 1889 , Introducing General Hawley - Republican Meeting, Elmira, New York, October 16, 1879 , Introducing George W. Cable - Unity Hall, Hartford, April 4, 1883 , Introducing The Reverend Charles Kingsley - Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, ca. February 14, 1874 , Introducing Winston S. Churchill - Grand Ballroom, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York, December 12, 1900 , Introductory Remarks - Spelling Match, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, May 12, 1875 , Last Known Comments - Concert, Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut, September 21st, 1909 , Mock Eulogy of Tammany - Acorns Election Jubilee, New York, November 6, 1901 , Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan - Early November 1884 , Monologue on the Royal Garden Party - Windsor Castle, England, June 22, 1907 , Morals Lecture - Music Hall, Cleveland, July 15, 1895, Prototype of Subsequent Tour Performances , On Adam - Royal Literary and Scientific Society Dinner, Ottawa, May 23, 1883 , On Foreign Critics - Dinner for Max O'Rell, Everettt House, Boston, April 27, 1890 , On Governor Nye - Steinway Hall, New York, January 24, 1872 , On Speech-Making Reform - Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton, New York, March 31, 1885 , Our Guest - Lord Mayor's Banquet for Mark Twain, Town Hall, Liverpool, July 10, 1907 , Political Speech - Republican Mass Meeting, Allyn Hall, Hartford, Spet. 30, 1876 , Political Speech - Republican Rally, Hartford Opera House, October 26, 1880 , Post-Prandial Oratory - Forefather's Day Dinner, Congregational Club, Music Hall, Boston, December 20, 1887 , Punch, Brothers, Punch - Read on World Tour Programs, 1895-96, and on Other Occasions , Remarks as Chairman - Lincoln Celebration, Benefit of Lincoln Memorial University, Carnegie Hall, New York, February 11, 1901 , Remarks as Chairman - Mugwump Rally, Allyn Hall, Hartford, October 20, 1884 , Remarks as Presiding Officer - San Francisco Relief Meeting, Casino, New York, April 21, 1906 , Remarks - Christening of Harbor Boat Mark Twain, St. Louis, June 6, 1902 , Remarks - Hannibal High School Graduation Exercises, Park Theatre, May 30, 1902 , Remarks on Copyright - Before the Committee on Patents, United States Senate, Washington, D.C., January 20-29, 1886 , Remarks on Copyright - Select Committee Hearing, House of Lords, April 3, 1900 , Remarks on Osteopathy - Committee on Public Health, New York, General Assembly, Albany, February 27, 1901 , Remarks - The Misses Tewksbury's School Graduation, Baltimore, Maryland, June 9, 1909 , Remarks - Unveiling of a Tablet Commemorating Eugene Field, St. Louis, June 6, 1902 , Remarks - Woman's Press Club Tea, Carnegie Hall, New York, October 27, 1900 , Reminiscences of Longfellow and Others - Interview, February 23, 1907 , Reminiscences - The Ends of the Earth Club, Hotel Savoy, New York, February 16, 1906 , Roughing It Lecture - Lecture Season, 1871-72; England, 1873 , Scotch Humor - One hundred forty-fifth Annual Dinner, St. Andrew's Society, Delmonico's, New York, November 30, 1901 , Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism - Stomach Club Dinner, Paris, Spring 1879 , Speech - Annual Meeting, Hebrew Technical School for Girls, Temple Emanu-El, New York, January 20, 1901 , Speech - Annual Meeting, University Settlement Society, New York, February 2, 1901 , Speech - Atantic Monthly Breakfast, Seventieth Birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, December 3, 1879 , Speech - Commemoration Luncheon, Glenelg, Australia, December 30, 1895 , Speech - Good Citizenship Association, East Side Settlement House, New York, November 7, 1901 , Speech-Making Experiment - Bar Harbor, Maine, August 14, 1901 , Speech on Art - Art Students Association Luncheon for Mark Twain, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, June 7, 1902 , Speech - Robert Fulton Monument Association Benefit, Carnegie Hall, New York, April 19, 1906 , Speech - University of Missouri Commencement, Columbia, June 4, 1902 , Story - Told to Garrison Children, Hamilton, Bermuda, April 6, 1908 , Supper Speech - Savage Club Supper for Mark Twain, Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 15, 1895 , The Benefit of Judicious Training - Twelfth Annual Reunion Banquet, Army of the Potomac, Allyn House, Hartford, June 8, 1881 , The Christening Yarn - Often Used From About 1889-1890 , The Compositor - Typothetae Dinner, Delmonico's, New York, January 18, 1886 - PLUS Rejected Version of Typothetae Speech , The Grand Tour--1. The Sandwich Islands - Baseball Dinner, Delmonico's, New York, April 8, 1889 , The Guests - St. Andrews Society Dinner, London, November 29, 1873 , The Long Clam - Supper for Edwin Booth, Delmonico's New York, March 30, 1889 , Three Speeches - New York Press Club Reception for Mark Twain, November 12,1900 , Training That Pays - Monthly Supper, Male Teachers Association, Hotel Albert, New York, March 16, 1901 , Travelogue - Dockside, New York, October 15, 1900 , Turncoats - Political Meeting, Hartford, Late October 1884 , Two Dinner Speeches - Lotos Club Dinner for Mark Twain, New York, November 11, 1893 , Two Political Speeches - Noonday Meeting, Order of Acorns, 350 Broadway, New York, October 29, 1901 , Welcome to General Grant - Hartford, October 16, 1880 , Woman - God Bless Her - Seventy-seventh Annual Dinner, New England Society of New York, Delmonico's, December 22, 1882 , Yale College Speech - Yale Alumni Association Banquet, Foot Guard Hall, Hartford, February 6, 1889 , Yankee Smith of Camelot - Military Service Institution, Governor's Island, New York, November 11, 1886