Thank you for this info Barb!

The photos in the Applewood 2015 reprint are indeed great (there were some
I don't believe I had seen before) but I suspect they do not appear as
nicely in this paperback as they probably did in the first edition.

Which reminds me of the coffee table book that I hope someone will publish
one day: "The Complete Photos of MT" :)

Thank you and take care,
Taylor


On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:25 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I agree with Taylor that Leary’s memoir as told to Mary Lawton is an
> extremely valuable contribution to Twain studies.  I use a digitized copy
> of this book for word searching to overcome the lack of an index. I do have
> an entry for Mary Lawton in my online Memorial Roster of Twain writers,
> editors, and scholars. She was born July 21, 1869 in Ware, Massachusetts
> and died January 21, 1945 in Orangeburg, NY. She studied at the American
> Academy of Dramatic Arts.  Her other books included _Schumann-Heink, the
> Last of the Titans_ (1928) and _The Paderewski Memoirs_ (1938).
>
> I have not seen the new edition of Lawton’s book but would hope that it
> features all the illustrations of the original.
>
> Barb
>