The announcement on the left is from the Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, for 16 November 1868; Cleveland is where MT began his first eastern tour, and as you can see from the notice, he was also the first in the series of ten lectures sponsored by the local Library Association. In Detroit, the lyceum series was underwritten by the Young Men's Society; the ad at right, for both MT's forthcoming lecture and the Detroit series it is part of, is from the Free Press, 22 December 1868: |