[Mark Twain]. Prof. J. W. Churchill. Old Bay State Course. Boston: George W. Wheeler, Manager, [December 15, 1881]. Original handbill for a performance at the Boston Music Hall. Small octavo (6.375 x 5.375 inches; 160 x 137 mm.). [4] pages. Single sheet bifolium, printed in blue. Two soft diagonal creases in the upper margin toward the spine fold; very faint marginal soiling; corners barely tapped with a tiny nick at the top of the spine fold. Near fine. Readings from Twain's "Scotty Briggs's Interview with the Clergyman" as well as stories from Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others. Churchill was "one of the foremost of our teachers of public speaking, and of the most eminent public readers America has known" (The Speaker, Volume III, No. 2, March 1908). (#10295).
