I tend to agree but I'm not writing about Wright.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Holmes" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: Laura Wright


> Regardless of whom the platonic sweetheart may be, it seems likely that
> Laura Wright is the "pretty girl of sixteen" Twain wrote of in chapter
> 12 of Life on the Mississippi. He does not give her name.
>
> On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 17:39 -0600, Kevin Mac Donnell wrote:
>> I've got a folder stuffed with research and have begun working it into
>> shape.
>>
>> Kevin
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>> Austin TX 78730
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>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Rick Talbot" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: Laura Wright
>>
>>
>> > Kevin,
>> > Your research is stunning and much to be relied upon. I look forward to
>> > your
>> > revealing a new and as yet undisclosed sweetheart. Please give to us 
>> > the
>> > full accounting of it that we are so royally used to. Best to Donna.
>> > Rick
>> >
>> > Richard Talbot
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather
>> > Morgan
>> > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:08 AM
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: Laura Wright
>> >
>> > Kevin - you are an absolute Twain wizard! Every time you post
>> > something,=20
>> > I learn yet more about Mark Twain. Can't wait to hear more later 
>> > this=20
>> > year.
>> > With thanks, Heather.
>> > =C2=A0
>> > =C2=A0
>> > =C2=A0On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 09:41 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell wrote:
>> > =C2=A0
>> > =C2=A0> Howard Baetzhold wrote a piece connecting Laura Wright with
>> > Twain's=
>> > =20
>> > essay
>> >> (My Platonic Sweetheart) in American Literature 44 (Nov 1972).=20
>> >> Somebody else suggested Susy Clemens as a "platonic sweetheart" in 
>> >> the=20
>> >> MTJ (Winter 1981-82). Before his Smithsonian piece, Ron Powers=20
>> >> included a good account of Laura Wright in his 2005 Twain 
>> >> biography.=20
>> >> More recently Alicia Tromp has rejected those flesh & blood models 
>> >> for=20
>> >> Twain's essay in her article in American Literary Realism (Platonic=20
>> >> Parody) 46:1 (Fall, 2013).
>> >>
>> >> I'll have more to say about Twain's various "sweethearts" when I=20
>> >> reveal a previously unknown one later this year.
>> >>
>> >> Kevin
>> >> @
>> >> Mac Donnell Rare Books
>> >> 9307 Glenlake Drive
>> >> Austin TX 78730
>> >> 512-345-4139
>> >> Member: ABAA, ILAB
>> >> *************************
>> >> You may browse our books at
>> >> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Holmes" To: Sent: Sunday,=20
>> >> January 12, 2014 2:48 AM
>> >> Subject: Laura Wright
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>=20
>> >>> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/mark-twain-in-love-14530235/?=
>> > all
>> >>>
>> >>> I just came across this article and thought I'd mention it to the=20
>> >>> list.
>> >>> This is the first I've heard of Laura Wright nor have I seen "My
>> >>> Platonic Sweetheart".  Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts=20
>> >>> about
>> >>> this piece in the Smithsonian.
>> >>>
>> >>>
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