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Thanks to Henry Feldman for the find!
Twain wrote Frances Nunnally, Dec. 29/07, "I wish you were here, so that I
could have you at dinner this evening & show you off . . . It's a small
dinner, for stage friends: John Drew & his wife, Will Gillette, & Billie
Burke--excellent folk, & Billie is as good as she is pretty."
The footnote: "Actress Billie Burke was becoming a good friend of Clemens
and visited him at Stormfield in 1909. Clemens had probably seen her as
Julia in _My Wife_, which was her New York debut performance in August
1907."
Source: John Cooley's 1991 _Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Angelfish
Correspondence--1905-1910_, p. 87-88.
larry marshburne [log in to unmask]
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