THANK you, Barbara for the link to that particular letter.  As a
delicious bonus, I offer this quote from the notes:

"As the sun rose above the desert range and gilded the Sugar Loaf, Mount
Davidson and Cedar Hill it shone likewise upon the porch of Fred Getzler’s
saloon, where, astride a barrel, sat Mark Twain, whom Artemus Ward, with a
spoon, was diligently doping with mustard, while he inquired of bystanders
if they had ever seen a more perfect presentment of a subjugated idiot. (
Goodman<http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00072.xml;doc.view=biblio;bibID=bib10122;style=letter;brand=mtp>,
1)"

This after they'd almost got shot by a "star" while leaping over roof tops.

This is definitely a glimpse of Mark Twain I'd never seen before.

Thank again, Barbara!
Arianne Laidlaw
Sacramento



On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Also of interest regarding this topic is the letter SLC sent home to
> his mother on 2? January 1864 advising her to treat the author Fitz
> Hugh Ludlow, author of _Hasheesh Eater_ (1857) well if he came her
> way.  The letter is online at:
>
> http://www.marktwainproject.org
>
> Ludlow, former editor of _Vanity Fair_ had written high praise of Mark
> Twain in a San Francisco newspaper.  Ludlow's biographer Donald P.
> Dulchinos, _Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow,
> Hasheeh Eater_ (1998), features a chapter on Twain and Ludlow titled
> "The Hasheeh Infant and the Washoe Giant."
>
> Barb
>



-- 
Arianne Laidlaw A '58