Two little queries have come to me from friends, and I need help.

1.  According to a postcard displayed on a website devoted to hemp products
and brought to my attention by a collector friend, Mark Twain's works were
printed on hemp paper.  Bibliophiles, is that the case?  Would book paper of
that period have had a substantial hemp content?  Or is this just another
exploitation of MT's cachet for promotional purposes?  (The postcard is
lovely, whether bogus or not; see www.hemptrivia.com/Mark_Twain.htm)

2.  An elderly friend in Tennessee seeks verification of family stories that
his grandmother, as a young woman in Hartford in the 1870's, attended a
"Tuesday Morning Club" that included Mark Twain.  I know about the Monday
Evening Club, which was undoubtedly too exclusive and formal to include a
young woman.  Does anyone know of further discussion-group action that might
have had a wider membership?

Thank you for any help.  I am deeply disappointed that job conflicts will
prevent me from coming to Elmira this summer and spending time among this
fine community of enthusiasts again.  I got a chance to repeat my "Mark
Twain on Postcards" talk for a home-town crowd last night (including,
scarily, my 11th-grade American Lit teacher, who must be 95) and found as
usual that EVERYBODY is turned on by hearing about Mark Twain.

Henry Feldman
Newtonville, Mass.