I have a "newish" academic biography of Nast at home, but I don't think it mentions any association with Twain. 

Nast did at least one caricature of Twain, buried among the produce in Canada while he applied for British copyright on one of the novels. 

Dennis Kelly

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On Sep 11, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hmmm... "met" should probably read "first exchanged letters with"
> 
> They exchanged letters when Paine was writing his Nast bio. But they also met at a dinner about that same time, and I don't recall which came first--  but I think the dinner, while Nast was still alive, before Paine had begun his work on the bio.
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>> Paine met Twain when researching Nast's biography, and the story goes that
>> Twain chose Paine as his own biographer on the basis of seeing Paine's work
>> on Nast. I have the copy of Paine's Nast bio inscribed by Paine to Twain in
>> Dec 1905 with a few notes by Twain, and a letter laid from some stranger
>> sending Twain a drawing by Nast (the drawing is long gone).  I think Twain
>> suggested Nast as illustrator of THE GILDED AGE but Bliss declined. I have
>> Nast's inscribed copy of THE INNOCENTS ABROAD.
>> 
>> I assume they smoked hasheesh together and that is actually Thomas Nast
>> handing Clara her hat in the film.
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>> Subject: Mark Twain and Thomas Nast?
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>>> Anyone aware of letters exchanged between Mark Twain and Thomas Nast? Or
>>> an=
>>> y other connection between the two?
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