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Leslie MYRICK <[log in to unmask]>
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There was an encounter between a reporter and Mark Twain in bed in Dec
1884: "Mark Twain Encountered." Rochester *Herald*, 8 Dec 1884, 8.
It's #24 in Gary Scharnhorst's compilation.
Leslie

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> The photo spoken of by this thread's respondents, and as noted, is from
> Twain's 1895 tour.  The request, as worded, was for something from the
> Cable tour.  I do vaguely recall something about Twain's entertaining
> reporters from his bed - but no photographs.  My own collection of
> reviews and notes from the Cable tour is not indexed and after a brief
> scan through it, I found no mention of such an event.
>
> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 20:07 -0700, Arianne . wrote:
> > A few months ago, I saw a photo graph of reporters gathered around a
> > bed
> > with Twain in it being interviewed.  It MIGHT have been in
> > Cleveland.  He
> > was so tired, article said, that he didn't feel like getting up for
> > the
> > reporters.  He talked about being a twin, which is a subject I talked
> > about
> > in my 1963 Master's Thesis,  Alas, I haven't heen able to find that
> > interview with that picture since.  Does anyone know what I'm talking
> > about
> > so that they could guide me to find it again?
> >
> > THANKS for any help.
> >
> > Arianne Laidlaw
> >
> --
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>                           in your philosophy.
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