I checked the 2v Twain-Howells letters and did not find such a reference,
but some very good letters on the loss of Susy. I also checked the Twain's
World CD with keywords: Susy, Winny, Susie, Winnie, Howells, club, etc., and
found nothing. Do you think perhaps the letter you are remembering was
written to someone after Livy's death? To someone who'd lost their wife or
husband? Perhaps even a letter written to Twain?
I've always thought Twain's letter to Joe Twichell of Jan 19, 1897 one of
the best he ever wrote. All about Susy, grief, his Hartford home, and
healing, but no club membership.
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From: "Hal Bush" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: MT & WDH = members of the "club"
> Folks; Again, my thanks to all for the suggestions so far. The quote is
> not in the SELECTED correspondence; it may be in the full 2 volume set,
> which my library inexplicably does not own (I have requested through ILL).
> Or: the quote may be from a notebook entry, another letter to another
> correspondent; Or, it may be in a score of other locations; and/or it may
> be a figment, a canard: for all I know there is no such quote.
>
> I might also point out, as I was reminded by one respondent: "the club"
> metaphor is common in parental grief narratives. Bereaved parents often
> use it, as in this NPR coverage a week after the tragedy, and the quote
> from the Columbine HS principal about Newtown's survivors:
>
> "Unfortunately the elementary school in Connecticut now becomes a part of
> this club, a club that we know is tragedy, heartbreak," said DeAngelis,
> who
> began teaching at Columbine in 1979. "And no one wants to be a part of
> that
> club, but what we have to do =97 no one asked us to be a part of it =97
> but
> now, how do we help each other?"
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/14/167293608/in-grief-stricken-=
> newtown-vigils-and-support-for-victims-and-families
>
> indeed: "no one wants to be a part of that club."
>
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