I have floated this question previously to the Forum,
but the reference to Twain, Lincoln, and Walt Whitman
makes me ask it again:  Is there anything in all of
Twainiana that gives Twain's thoughts on Lincoln? I
can find nothing, and given the fact that major homes
of these two giants are only 100 miles apart and the
fact that Twain could hardly have had no thoughts
about Lincoln, and the fact that Twain always
unburdened himself on anything that touched his mind,
how can it be that Twain left nothing to us about
Lincoln? This gaping hole is too obvious not to be
examined. Who out there is up to the challenge of
researching this? Could there be a dissertation or a
book just waiting to be written?

Doug Bridges