1890 B. P. SHILLABER. Signed Edition of First Humorist in America - Discovered Mark Twain! Vellum and the merits of her

and the merits of her several productions are so generally known" (ANB)

they voted to assign me a subject for another sermon

Kansas became part of the larger American drama

In humble gratitude we prostrate ourselves in they all Merciful Presence - justly indeed for our manifold sins

1890 B. P. SHILLABER. Signed Edition of First Humorist in America - Discovered Mark Twain! Vellum and the merits of herA wonderful, authorially inscribed volume by the first humorist in 19th century America. B. P. Shallaber, i. e. Mrs. Partington, was the editor of America's first humor magazine and has been called the "torch bearer" of the American humor movement in the mid 1800s. He was also, scholars tell us, the first editor to publish a comic sketch by a young Samuel Clemens, who would go on to become the quintessential American humorist, Mark Twain. The article