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"Martin D. Zehr" <[log in to unmask]>
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If someone has a specific question regarding Neider's Colonel Sellers book, I have it in my library and would be glad to make use of it, for a change.

Martin Zehr
Kansas City, Missouri

--- On Tue, 12/20/11, Michael MacBride <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Michael MacBride <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Breakdown of Gilded Age chapters
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Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 1:11 PM

I hadn't heard of the Neider book, but the lists sound like they would be a
useful resource.  Oddly enough, I was about to go back and revisit The
Gilded Age.  So, if you happen upon the complete lists, I'd love to have a
copy of them.

I found Google books has snippet views from the book you seek:
http://books.google.com/books?id=7lFaAAAAMAAJ&q=Neider+colonel+sellers&dq=Neider+colonel+sellers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Bd3wTs3RBsqSiQKw0ei4Dg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA


You can search it, and it returns bits and pieces.  It might be tedious,
but since you have a better sense of what you're looking for than I do, you
can probably piece it together by searching for various key phrases from
the lists.

That said, I'm sure someone else on the list will provide the answer in a
minute or less.

Michael MacBride
Minnesota State University, Mankato


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Sometime back around 1960, Charles Neider did a book called The =
> Adventures of Colonel Sellers, which purported to be just the parts of =
> The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain. In the introduction, he quoted a =
> couple of letters in which Twain listed which chapters (or parts of =
> chapters) were his. The last time I read The Gilded Age, about 25 years =
> ago, I copied down those two lists (which didn=E2=80=99t agree 100 =
> percent, but close enough) and kept them handy, so when I read a certain =
> section that involved Sellers but didn=E2=80=99t sound quite Twainish I =
> could check and see whether it was or not.
>
> I=E2=80=99m reading The Gilded Age again right now, and just today I =
> went to the university library to recopy those lists =E2=80=93 but the =
> Neider book isn=E2=80=99t there any more. So my question is, does =
> anybody have one or both of those lists handy?
>
> -- Bob G.
>

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