January 10, 1885 to January 11, 1885

ST LOUIS CITY, Missouri

Arts/Leisure

On the evening of January 10, 1885, Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, traveling on a reading tour with another author, George W. Cable, read selected passages from his various literary works at the Mercantile Library Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the newspapers covering the event, noted that a brilliant audience (about 700 people) turned up to hear...