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Mark Twain in Australia: Two New Interviews

Mark Twain arrived in Sydney, Australia, on September 16, 1895, on his round-the-world speaking tour. Most of the interviews he granted during these months have been edited by Gary Scharnhorst. However, Twain sat for two interviews in Australia before the end of the year that have hitherto been lost to scholarship. Twain gave the first upon docking in Sydney aboard the Warrimoo. In it, he discussed several humorists. The second occurred in Melbourne in late December 1895, when a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana threatened to ignite a war between the U.S. and Great Britain. This interview focuses almost exclusively on Twain’s understanding of the Monroe Doctrine. I have numbered these interviews in accordance with Scharnhorst’s sequence in Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (2006).