She was beat to the punch by Ida Belle White in 1915.  Ida Belle published 
SPIRITS DO RETURN, and claimed Twain assisted her with her book. It's even 
scarcer than JAP HERRON. In 1916 Hutchings contacted Harper Brothers, 
perhaps inspired as much by Ida Belle as by Twain, but ended up with 
Mitchell Kennedy. There's some unintentionally hilarious research into all 
of this by James Hyslop who published a book and at least one magazine 
article about it in 1919. Twain stayed dead until 1968 when he visited 
another midwestern lady whose daughter had recently died, but so far as I 
know he's stayed dead ever since.

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This was just forwarded by a medical school classmate.

You likely know all of the details of this already [I have a vague 
recollection about hearing about it once], but this struck me as a 
well-written story worth passing on to people who appreciate odd tales from 
beyond the grave.

Pat

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