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(NEW YORK CITY.) Bound volume of Order of Acorns anti-corruption pamphlets, featuring one by Mark Twain. 18 broadsides and pamphlets in one volume. 4to, cloth-backed boards, minimal wear; presentation inscription on front free endpaper. [New York, 1901]
The Order of Acorns was founded to combat Tammany Hall corruption in the New York City government. They played a role in the election of Republican reformer Seth Low as mayor on a fusion ticket in 1901. This bound volume of their pamphlets was inscribed by member William F. King to banker and Jewish leader Jacob H. Schiff. explaining that "the distribution was done through 15000 firms to their employees and by others through the tenement districts." The first and most important of these pamphlets is by Mark Twain, a member of the Order, titled "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany." Also included are "Oak Leaf No. 1" and subsequent publications numbered 3 through 12, plus the unnumbered broadside "Business Blackmail, End it!" #8 is printed in Yiddish; a manuscript note reads "In Jüdisch only." The attached typescript translation is titled "To Wives and Mothers." #10 is a leaflet titled "It's Up to You" which appears in several translations: German, Italian, French, Russian, and Yiddish.
