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Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) — 128 episodes
Speech-Making Experiment - Bar Harbor, Maine, August 14, 1901
Training That Pays - Monthly Supper, Male Teachers Association, Hotel Albert, New York, March 16, 1901
Dinner Speech - First Banquet, Missouri Society of New York, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, May 28, 1901
Remarks as Chairman - Lincoln Celebration, Benefit of Lincoln Memorial University, Carnegie Hall, New York, February 11, 1901
Speech - Annual Meeting, University Settlement Society, New York, February 2, 1901
Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., New York, March 23, 1901
Speech - Annual Meeting, Hebrew Technical School for Girls, Temple Emanu-El, New York, January 20, 1901
Introducing Winston S. Churchill - Grand Ballroom, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York, December 12, 1900
Three Speeches - New York Press Club Reception for Mark Twain, November 12,1900
Two Political Speeches - Noonday Meeting, Order of Acorns, 350 Broadway, New York, October 29, 1901
Remarks on Osteopathy - Committee on Public Health, New York, General Assembly, Albany, February 27, 1901
Last Known Comments - Concert, Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut, September 21st, 1909
Interview - Dockside, New York, July 22, 1907
Remarks - The Misses Tewksbury's School Graduation, Baltimore, Maryland, June 9, 1909
Interview - New York, April 13, 1908
Story - Told to Garrison Children, Hamilton, Bermuda, April 6, 1908
Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for Andrew Carnegie, March 17, 1909
Speech - Good Citizenship Association, East Side Settlement House, New York, November 7, 1901
Reminiscences - The Ends of the Earth Club, Hotel Savoy, New York, February 16, 1906
Mock Eulogy of Tammany - Acorns Election Jubilee, New York, November 6, 1901
Monologue on the Royal Garden Party - Windsor Castle, England, June 22, 1907
Dinner Speech - Lord Mayor's Dinner for the Savage Club, Mansion House, London, June 29, 1907
Reminiscences of Longfellow and Others - Interview, February 23, 1907
Speech - University of Missouri Commencement, Columbia, June 4, 1902
Bishop Speech - Between October 5 and 17, 1907
Scotch Humor - One hundred forty-fifth Annual Dinner, St. Andrew's Society, Delmonico's, New York, November 30, 1901
Remarks - Unveiling of a Tablet Commemorating Eugene Field, St. Louis, June 6, 1902
Dinner Speech - New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital Dinner, Delmonicco's, New York, January 20, 1909
Dinner Speech - Government House, Annapolis, Maryland, May 10, 1907
Interview - Washington, D.C., December 7, 1906
Introducing Dr. Henry Van Dyke - Late February or Early March, 1906
Remarks - Christening of Harbor Boat Mark Twain, St. Louis, June 6, 1902
Dinner Speech - Twentieth Anniversary Dinner, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Hotel Savoy, New York, March 8, 1902
Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for General Horace Porter, New York, June 17, 1902
Remarks - Hannibal High School Graduation Exercises, Park Theatre, May 30, 1902
Dinner Speech - Lotos Club Dinner for Joseph H. Choate, New York, November 16, 1901
Remarks as Presiding Officer - San Francisco Relief Meeting, Casino, New York, April 21, 1906
Speech on Art - Art Students Association Luncheon for Mark Twain, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, June 7, 1902
Interview - Aboard S.S. Minneapolis, New York, June 8, 1907
Burlesque Temperance Lecture - Dinner Party for Clara Clemens, 21 Fifth Avenue, New York, December 31, 1906
Dinner Speech - Yale Alumni Association Dinner, Allyn Hall, Hartford, January 31, 1902
Speech - Robert Fulton Monument Association Benefit, Carnegie Hall, New York, April 19, 1906
Dinner Speech - Associated Press Banquet, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York, September 19, 1906
Our Guest - Lord Mayor's Banquet for Mark Twain, Town Hall, Liverpool, July 10, 1907
Dinner Speech - Whitefriars Club, London, ca. Ocotber 1872
Curtain Speech - One Hundredth Performance of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York, Deccember 23, 1874
De Woman wid de Gold'n Arm - Reading Selection, First Used About 1881 and Often Thereafter
On Governor Nye - Steinway Hall, New York, January 24, 1872
The Benefit of Judicious Training - Twelfth Annual Reunion Banquet, Army of the Potomac, Allyn House, Hartford, June 8, 1881
Dinner Speech - National Wholesale Druggists Association Banquet, Washington, D.C., ca. September 1890
Dinner Speech - Ninth Annual Renunion Banquet, Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, Central Hall, Hartford, April 27, 1887
Punch, Brothers, Punch - Read on World Tour Programs, 1895-96, and on Other Occasions
Impromptu Speech - Thirteenth Reunion, Army of the Tennessee, Haverly's Theater, Chicago. November 12, 1879
Curtain Speech - Opening of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York, September 16, 1874
The Christening Yarn - Often Used From About 1889-1890
Yankee Smith of Camelot - Military Service Institution, Governor's Island, New York, November 11, 1886
At a Dinner for Monsieur Fréchette of Quebec - Hotel Windsor, Holyoke, Massachusetts, January 31, 1882
Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism - Stomach Club Dinner, Paris, Spring 1879
Introducing General Hawley - Republican Meeting, Elmira, New York, October 16, 1879
Dinner Speech - Massachusetts Press Association, Boston, February 17, 1874
Turncoats - Political Meeting, Hartford, Late October 1884
Remarks as Chairman - Mugwump Rally, Allyn Hall, Hartford, October 20, 1884
Speech - Atantic Monthly Breakfast, Seventieth Birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, December 3, 1879
Introducing Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye and James Whitcomb Riley - Tremont Temple, Boston, February 28, 1889
Woman - God Bless Her - Seventy-seventh Annual Dinner, New England Society of New York, Delmonico's, December 22, 1882
Dinner Speech - Dinner for Mark Twain, Windsor Hotel, Montreal, December 8, 1881
Introducing George W. Cable - Unity Hall, Hartford, April 4, 1883
Curtain Speech - Opening of The Prince and the Pauper, Broadway Theatre, New York, January 20, 1890
Dinner Speech - Anglo-American Club Banquet, Heidelberg, Germanay, Juy 4, 1878
His Grandfather's Old Ram - Told on the World Tour, 1895-96, and on Other Occasions
After-Dinner Speech - Meeting of Americans, London, July 4, 1873
Introducing The Reverend Charles Kingsley - Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, ca. February 14, 1874
On Foreign Critics - Dinner for Max O'Rell, Everettt House, Boston, April 27, 1890
Supper Speech - Savage Club Supper for Mark Twain, Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 15, 1895
Four Speeches - Smoke Night, Australian Institute of Journalists, Cathedral Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, October 27, 1895
Dinner Speech - Banquet of Wheelmen, Springfield, Massachusetts, September 16 or 17, 1883
Welcome to General Grant - Hartford, October 16, 1880
Introductory Remarks - Spelling Match, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, May 12, 1875
Travelogue - Dockside, New York, October 15, 1900
Remarks - Woman's Press Club Tea, Carnegie Hall, New York, October 27, 1900
The Long Clam - Supper for Edwin Booth, Delmonico's New York, March 30, 1889
Speech - Commemoration Luncheon, Glenelg, Australia, December 30, 1895
Interview - Bombay, India, ca. January 22, 1896
Political Speech - Republican Mass Meeting, Allyn Hall, Hartford, Spet. 30, 1876
Dinner Speech - Stanley Club, Paris, ca. April 1879
Advice - Dedication of Town Hall, Fairhaven, Massachusetts, February 22, 1894
Huck Saves Jim - From Huckleberry Finn, a Reading Often Used from 1885 On
Dinner Speech - The Aldine Dinner, St. James Hotel, New York, Early February, 1872
The Grand Tour--1. The Sandwich Islands - Baseball Dinner, Delmonico's, New York, April 8, 1889
Dinner Speech - Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor, Delmonico's, New York, April 4, 1878
Interview - Hartford, Early December, 1889
Yale College Speech - Yale Alumni Association Banquet, Foot Guard Hall, Hartford, February 6, 1889
Curtain Speech - Performance of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Herald Square Theatre, New York, May 22, 1895
Interview - Vancouver, B.C. August 19, 1895
Two Dinner Speeches - Lotos Club Dinner for Mark Twain, New York, November 11, 1893
Dinner Speech - New Vagabonds Club Dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Clemens, London, June 29, 1899
Dinner Speech - Dinner for Brander Matthews, New York, ca. December 1893
Roughing It Lecture - Lecture Season, 1871-72; England, 1873
On Speech-Making Reform - Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton, New York, March 31, 1885
Remarks on Copyright - Select Committee Hearing, House of Lords, April 3, 1900
Dinner Speech - Dinner for Judge Robert A. Pryor, Astor House, New York, October 9, 1890
An Author's Soldiering - Twenty-Second Reunion Banquet, Union Veterans Association of Maryland, Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, April 8, 1887
Funeral Oration Over the Grave of the Democratic Party - Republican Jollifiction, Opera House, Hartford, November 2, 1880
Dinner Speech - Fellowcroft Club Dinner, New Yrok, November 15, 1889
Remarks on Copyright - Before the Committee on Patents, United States Senate, Washington, D.C., January 20-29, 1886
On Adam - Royal Literary and Scientific Society Dinner, Ottawa, May 23, 1883
Dinner Speech - Putnam Phalanx Dinner for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, Allyn House, Hartford, Oct. 2, 1877
Political Speech - Republican Rally, Hartford Opera House, October 26, 1880
The Guests - St. Andrews Society Dinner, London, November 29, 1873
The Compositor - Typothetae Dinner, Delmonico's, New York, January 18, 1886 - PLUS Rejected Version of Typothetae Speech
Advice to Youth - Saturday Morning Club, Boston, April 15, 1882
Dinner Speech - Dinner for Mark Twain, Yorick Club, Melbourne, Australia, October 3, 1895
Morals Lecture - Music Hall, Cleveland, July 15, 1895, Prototype of Subsequent Tour Performances
Post-Prandial Oratory - Forefather's Day Dinner, Congregational Club, Music Hall, Boston, December 20, 1887
Curtain Speech - Opening of Ah Sin, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, July 31, 1877
Dinner Speech - Stationers Board of Trade Dinner, Hotel Brunswick, New York, February 10, 1887
Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan - Early November 1884
The American Vandal Abroad - Lyceum Season, November 17, 1868
Address to the Czar - Yalta, Russia, August 25, 1867
The Reliable Contraband - New York Press Club Dinner, Elmonico's, June 5, 1869
Concluding Remarks - Congress Hall, San Francisco, December 10, 1866
Introduction
Artemus Ward Lecture - Lecture Season 1871-72
Sandwich Islands Lecture - First Given in San Francisco, October 2, 1866
Concluding Remarks - Protestant Orphan Asylum Benefit, Case Hall, Cleveland, January 22, 1869
Presentation Speech - Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, June 12, 1864
Introductory Remarks - Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Juy 2, 1868
Pilgrim Life - Platt's Hall, San Francisco, April 14-15, 1868