WILL DELIVER A
SERIO-HUMEROUS LECTURE
CONERNING
KANAKDOM
OR
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS,
COOPER INSTITUTE,
On Monday Evening, May 6,1867.
TICKETS FIFTY GENTS.
For Sale at Chickering and Sons, 852 Broadway, and at the Principal
Hotel
Doors open at 7 o'clock. The Wisdom will begin to flow at 8.
Mark Twain always felt grateful to the school-teachers for that night.
Many years later, when they wanted him to read to them in Steinway Hall,
he gladly gave his services without charge.
Nor was the lecture a complete financial failure. In spite of the
flood of complementaries, there was a cash return of some three hundred
dollars from the sale of tickets--a substantial aid in defraying the
expenses which Fuller assumed and insisted on making good on his own
account. That was Fuller's regal way; his return lay in the joy of the
game, and in the winning of the larger stake for a friend.
“Mark,” he said, “it is all right. The fortune didn't come, but it will.
The fame has arrived; with this lecture and your book just out you are
going to be the most talked-of man in the country. Your letters for the
Alta and the Tribune will get the widest reception of any letters of
travel ever written.”