Michael Shelden brings it up in his excellent biography "Mark Twain: Man in White." I don't have my copy in front of me to give you the reference, but someone else might build on this direction.

-Alex

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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Messent
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I seem to remember the first time I came across this was in  American Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2: Fall 1980, Forrest Robinson's '"Seeing the
Elephant": Perspectives on Mark Twain's Roughing It'. Worth a look? Pete

Forrest

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To the members of the Mark Twain Forum,

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I've been trying to track down the source of the story about the night = =3D

in 1866 when Twain considered suicide. Apparently Twain mentioned the = =3D

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excellent work lists and comments on Twain's books alphabetically, and = =3D

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to see if anyone knows which particular book the marginalia appears in.
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Thanks to anyone who can help me.

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Christopher Morris

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