Mark Twain Journal

To the Mark Twain Journal—God Knows Where!
Mark Twain tells the story in his autobiography about a letter he received addressed simply to

Mark Twain
Somewhere

that had “traveled over several European countries; it had met with hospitality and with every possible assistance during its wide journey; it was ringed all over, on both sides, with a chainmail
mesh of postmarks—there were nineteen of them.” Eventually, Twain did receive the letter. Even
one addressed

Mark Twain
God Knows Where

Eventually arrived at the author’s home, having found its way from Australia.
These stories came to mind this last week as the Mark Twain Library in Redding, Connecticut, unexpectedly received several hundred copies of the spring issue of the Mark Twain Journal. At
fault was a new software system that misdirected these issues to Connecticut instead of Texas.
Fortunately, as with Twain’s letters, these issues “met with hospitality” among our Connecticut
Friends. Thanks to Library Director Erin (left) and her colleague Cathy these issues are now
headed where they belong! Look for yours in the mail soon! Thanks Erin and Cathy!

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Mark Twain Journal The Mark Twain Journal is a twice-yearly periodical devoted to the life and works of the American author Mark Twain, drawing where possible on contemporary sources. The journal also explores his...

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We would like to introduce our Editor and Publisher, Dr. Joe B. Fulton. Joe B. Fulton is a Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he has been honored as an "Outstanding Professor for Scholarship" and as a "Baylor University Class of 1945 Centennial Professor." Dr. Fulton has published numerous books and articles on American literature. His work has appeared in American Literary Realism, Christianity and Literature, ESQ, The New England Quarterly, and many other journals. He is the author of Lost Liberty: Recovering Historical Definitions of America’s Most Important Word (Createspace, 2014), the result of his obsession with collecting American dictionaries. In addition, he has published four books on Mark Twain: Mark Twain’s Ethical Realism: The Aesthetics of Race, Class, and Gender (University of Missouri Press, 1997); Mark Twain in the Margins: The Quarry Farm Marginalia and the Composition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (University of Alabama Press, 2000); The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content (The Ohio State University Press, 2006); and The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of our Literature (Louisiana State University Press, 2011), winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Southern Studies. Dr. Fulton and his wife Hallie have four children and live out in the middle of nowhere on a little patch of heaven in Texas.