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Once again, Kevin, you prove yourself to be a significant benefactor to (if
such a thing exists) the Mark Twain community. Cheers!

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*Peter Salwen /* salwen.com
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The copyright to 111 of those 129 images is co-owned by me and Elmira
> College. To obtain permission to use photos from that book please write the
> Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College and specify the photos you
> wish to use and describe your project. They will then contact me, and if
> permission is granted you will be given a credit line to use in your
> publication. Permissions are Very Rarely denied and there are no fees
> whatsoever. If you have a publisher who requires a high res image I can
> provide them; again there is no fee.
>
> Kevin
> @
> Mac Donnell Rare Books
> 9307 Glenlake Drive
> Austin TX 78730
> 512-345-4139
> Member: ABAA, ILAB
> *************************
> You may browse our books at:
> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Holmes
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 10:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Photo of Susy and Clara
>
> I found a used copy of "Overland" on Amazon.  It still has a library
> catalog number from Fairmont State College Library. The book has a
> wonderful collection of photographs taken by Major Pond.  I'd love to
> be able to include some of them in my current project on Twain's tour
> across North America.
>
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 11:26 -0400, Carl J. Chimi wrote:
> > I will do it just as soon as my local bookseller can get a copy in
> > for me.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin
> > Mac
> > Donnell
> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 11:03 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Photo of Susy and Clara
> >
> > For quite a few good photos of both Clara and Susy taken just a few
> > years
> > later see OVERLAND WITH MARK TWAIN (Elmira College, 1992).
> >
> >
> > Kevin
> > @
> > Mac Donnell Rare Books
> > 9307 Glenlake Drive
> > Austin TX 78730
> > 512-345-4139
> > Member: ABAA, ILAB
> > *************************
> > You may browse our books at:
> > www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carl J. Chimi
> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:23 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Photo of Susy and Clara
> >
> > My wife helped me dig through piles of books.  Bless her.
> >
> > The wagon photo is also published in "The Life and Times of Mark
> > Twain", by
> > Dennis Well and, on page 124. The caption there also puts Susy's name
> > first,
> > implying the girl on the left (in the foreground in the white dress)
> > is
> > Susy.  I think that girl is Clara.
> >
> > The photo I mentioned of Susy on the porch at Quarry Farm, taken
> > months
> > before her death, is on page 175 of "Mark Twain: An Illustrated
> > Biography",
> > by Geoffrey Ward, Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns.  She sure has a sad,
> > depressed look on her face, poor child.
> >
> > Carl
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl J.
> > Chimi
> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:45 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Photo of Susy and Clara
> >
> > Dear Twainians,
> >
> > Steve Courtney was kind enough to send me a digital copy of the
> > photograph
> > of the girls in the wagon.  I think anyone interested should be able
> > to
> > download it from this link:
> >
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/r3o5jcn1bf2x8ze/Susy%20and%20Clara.jpg?dl=0
> >
> > I'll be interested in any opinions about the girls' identities.  I'd
> > also
> > like to know what that other book was that published this photo a few
> > years
> > ago.
> >
> > Carl
> --
> There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>                           in your philosophy.
>                         http://bscottholmes.com
>

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