Mark Twain in German-Language Newspapers and Periodicals

Writing | Switzerland, The Cradle of Liberty

A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers (Paine 2:923) and which appeared as "Switzerland, The Cradle of Liberty" in the Twain collection What Is Man? And Other Essays (1917, 193-208). The article was published under different titles in several American newspapers, including The Pittsburg Dispatch which claimed that it was "Written for the Dispatch" ("Clock of the Ages," 6 March 1892, 11). On the same day, The Omaha Daily Bee printed the text as "The Cradle of Liberty. By Mark Twain" (6 March 1892,10).
A digital version of the typescript of the text with additional pencil sketches, holograph inscriptions, and explanations is available in the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Barbara Schmidt's Twainquotes has a transcript of the article as it appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune on March 6, 1892.

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