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THANKS for that additional lead.  I had a good time watching your YOUTUBE
video on Marka Twain on tour.  THANKS
Arianne Laidlaw

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
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> That would be the one I was thinking about:  "Mr. Clemens, in an
> embroidered robe de nuit, lay on a bed. his head propped up with two
> pillows and a bolster.... explaining that on Sunday very often he
> didn't get up until Monday."  This would have been Sunday, 7 December
> 1884, at the Powers Hotel, Room 222.  George Cable was roomed on a
> different floor.
>
> On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 10:41 -0700, Leslie MYRICK wrote:
> > 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
> > > >
> > > --
> > >  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are
> > > dreamt of
> > >                           in your philosophy.
> > >                         http://bscottholmes.com
> > >
> --
>  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>                           in your philosophy.
>                         http://bscottholmes.com
>



-- 
Arianne Laidlaw A '58

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