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Tue, 23 Mar 1993 18:03:12 PST
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                          The Means to the End:
                 Victorian Design in Mark Twain's House

                  Mark Twain Memorial Spring Symposium

                        Saturday, April 24, 1993


     The Mark Twain Memorial's spring symposium will explore the
influence of Gothic, Classical, Renaissance, and Exotic design
interpretations on Victorian architecture, interior design and the
decorative arts.  Art and architectural historians Sarah Bradford
Landau, Mark Alan Hewitt, Leland Roth and Robert Grant Irving will focus
their talks on the Mark Twain House, the primary residence of the
Clemens family from 1874 until 1891.  Twain's home was designed by
Edward Tuckerman Potter and decorated in 1881 by Louis Comfort Tiffany
and Associated artists.

     Registration: $25 members and students, $35 non-members.
Reservations should be mailed by April 15.  For more information, call
or write:

          Spring Symposium
          Mark Twain Memorial
          351 Farmington Avenue
          Hartford, CT  06105
          (203) 247-0998

The above is from a recent mailing of the Mark Twain Memorial.

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