Hi John, As far as I'm aware Twain's longest accounts of Keeler were in his autobiography (Volume 1, 150 onwards) and scattered references in letters to Howells. I don't recall an essay from 1873 but it has been a minute since I was really researching Keeler. I wrote an article about him and his friendships with Twain (and Howells and Aldrich) which you might be able to get here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14775700.2016.1242651 If not, I'm happy to send you a copy. It's always nice to see someone taking an interest in Keeler! Best wishes, Tom ************************************************ Dr Thomas Ruys Smith Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture Room A1.40 University of East Anglia Norwich Norfolk NR4 7TJ United Kingdom Coming soon: Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain: https://amzn.to/2JoEzqO E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://thomasruyssmith.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/ThomasRuysSmith ************************************************ ________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of John Greenman <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 28 May 2019 21:14:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Ralph Keeler by Sam Howells wrote that Twain wrote an essay about Ralph Keeler [who died in (c) 1873]. Does anyone know if it’s in a public domain collection???? thanks! :-) -j +++++++++++++ John Greenman [log in to unmask] Mark Twain Audiobooks from Librivox <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibrivox.org%2Freader%2F107%3Fprimary_key%3D107%26search_category%3Dreader%26search_page%3D1%26search_form%3Dget_results&data=02%7C01%7CThomas.Smith%40UEA.AC.UK%7C3377080278b3423e2d4b08d6e3a9eaf2%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C636946716272918228&sdata=XCvRg%2BeM9rum4rcNMnR0n4E2Ze7e%2FmsUNXL36qvY2u0%3D&reserved=0> My Mark Twain audio recordings at Archive.org <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3DAudio%2B%2522John%2BGreenman%2522%26sort%3D-downloads&data=02%7C01%7CThomas.Smith%40UEA.AC.UK%7C3377080278b3423e2d4b08d6e3a9eaf2%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C636946716272918228&sdata=iRUmwsMENbWO923hLUHEr8oksEtZERFsOmiX%2F880Jlg%3D&reserved=0> +++++++++++++ Old bricklayers never die - they just throw in the trowel.
