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Re: Mr Blucher
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Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:35:24 -0600
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Annotations for _Roughing It_ (UCal Press, 1993), p. 702 state the
"mendicant Blucher" was identified by Clemens in a letter to Mary
Mason Fairbanks of 29 June 1871 as John Henry Riley.

Annotations for _Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks_ (Huntington Library,
1949) p. 155 indicate that Clemens apparently tried to delete the name
Riley from the letter and substituted Blucher, the name being used in
a lectures Clemens was writing titled "Reminiscences of some
Un-Commonplace Characters I have Chanced to Meet."

The character Blucher/Riley is not to be confused with Blucher from
_Innocents Abroad_, the ingenious youth in _Innocents Abroad_.

Barb

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