I reprint here a total of seven Mark Twain interviews new to scholarship, all numbered in accordance with the sequence in Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2006).1
On the New York Mr. Samuel Clemens or, as he is better known “Mark Twain,” [. . .] was on his way to Paris, where his family have been stopping this winter. He declared that the only proper way for an American to go to France in comfort was via Southampton, which enabled him to speak and be spoken to in his own language for a part of the journey at least. Asked if he was writing another book, he replied, “I am always writing books. I have three on hand now. They will be out very soon.”2 What are they?” said his interviewer. “They are as yet unnamed. It is only after a book is...
