Mark Twain's "spelling match" speech

Southern Quarterly, Fall 2002 by Smith, Harriet Elinor, Frank, Michael B

The receipts at the fair and spelling match were over $600. There being a number of fancy articles still unsold the chapel will be open after 7 o'clock this evening for the sale of the remaining articles, consequently the usual Thursday evening lecture will be omitted.

WORKS CITED

Clemens, Samuel L. "A Simplified Alphabet." What Is Man? and Other Essays. Ed. Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1917.

HARRIET ELINOR SMITH AND MICHAEL B. FRANK

HARRIET ELINOR SMITH and MICHAEL B. FRANK are editors of volume 6 of Mark Twain's Letters, published in the fall of 2002 by the University of California Press. SoQ is grateful to them and to Robert Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley, for allowing us to publish this little essay by Mark Twain, which they discovered while annotating the Letters.