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Tracy Wuster <[log in to unmask]>
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Larry,

I am looking for one of two that show Twain as a frog.  I have the one of
him riding a frog.

Thanks,

Tracy

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Tracy--
>
> Sorry that these images didn't show up graphically.  Don't know why--
> they were there when I sent them.  As I mention, you can find them on
> Google images, under MArk Twain Cartoon--there in the first four pages
> or so.
>
> --LH
>
> On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Larry Howe wrote:
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> > Tracy--
> >
> > MT as a frog, or riding a frog as in the image below.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's another
> >
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> >
> > I found both on Google Images
> >
> > --LH
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Tracy Wuster wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am preparing for an upcoming talk, and I am hoping to find one of
> >> two
> >> illustrations to use as a visual.
> >>
> >> The first is from the London Hornet from December 13, 1873 in a story
> >> called "Mark Twain on Woman."  It features a frog with the head of
> >> Mark
> >> Twain.  There is a copy in Scrapbook #12 at the Mark Twain Papers,
> >> but I
> >> have been unable to find a scan of it.
> >>
> >> The second is from the New York Graphic, from September 21, 1874,
> >> also
> >> showing Mark Twain as a frog.  This illustration is found in Lou
> >> Budd's, *Our
> >> Mark Twain*, on page 53.
> >>
> >> If anyone has a useable scan of either of these, I would be
> >> tremendously
> >> grateful.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Tracy Wuster
> >
> >
> > --Apple-Mail-4--563825970--
>

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