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Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 31 Oct 1993 16:17:25 -0800
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     The Mark Twain Forum's LISTSERV seems to have been down the past
couple of days.  Sorry for any inconvenience and delay this might have
caused.

     An electronic text of Mark Twain's "Sociable Jimmy" is now
available from the MT Forum filelist.  This sketch appeared in the _New
York Times_ (29 November 1874), and is the anecdote upon which Shelley
Fisher Fishkin bases her claim that Twain used a real-life black person
as the model for the speech of Huck Finn (_Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain
and African-American Voices_, Oxford University Press, 1993).

     To retrieve "Sociable Jimmy" (9,655 bytes), send a message to
either [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] containing the
command:

                             GET JIMMY TEXT TWAIN-L

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Enjoy!

Taylor Roberts
University of British Columbia
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Date:         Sun, 31 Oct 1993 16:20:55 -0800
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From:         Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Was Twain gay?: Elmira conference paper now available

The much-publicized paper that Andy Hoffman presented in August at the
Elmira conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies is now available from
the Mark Twain Forum filelist by the kind permission of its author.  To
retrieve a copy of "A New Position: Sex and Twain Biography," send a
message to either <[log in to unmask]> or <[log in to unmask]>
containing the single line:

                          GET TWAIN SEX TWAIN-L

To see the complete Mark Twain Forum filelist, send the command:

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Taylor Roberts
University of British Columbia

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