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Reference code
LIB/ME/AE/19
Level of description
Item
Title
Advertising handbill. Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square. Mr. Mark Twain will deliver a lecture, 13th October 1873
1873
Extent and medium
1 handbill
Personal name
Twain, Mark
Corporate name
Queen's Concert Rooms (Hanover Square, London, England)
Scope and content
Advertising handbill for a lecture 'of a humorous character' by Mark Twain at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, 13th - 18th October 1873. The lecture was announced by George Dolby and Twain's subject was given as 'Our fellow savages of the Sandwich Islands'.
Mark Twain spent several months on the Sandwich Islands in 1866 and gave his first lecture on the subject in San Francisco in December 1866. In fact he delivered the lecture some 100 times across the United States and then in London, the last occasion being 8th December 1873. George Dolby was his lecture-agent (likewise a promoter of Charles Dickens's public appearances)