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Date: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Subject: First edition Farewell to Arms Found in St. Louis
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Greetings,
An organization in St. Louis has a huge book sale in the garage of Macy's
West County Mall every year. One year a TV anchor man found a first edition
of Huck Finn out in the stacks.
This year a worker found a signed First Edition of A Farewell to Arms. The
book was given to Ivey-Selkirk. com auction house to be auctioned on March
20 or 21. They value it between $5,500 to $6,500. I hope haven't looked on
line to see it as yet.
--
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Saint Louis University
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:26 -0700
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A friend sent me this article. Comments at end start the discussion.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-mark-twain14-2010mar14,0,1474088.story
--
Arianne Laidlaw
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:17:05 -0800
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I've heard a statement attributed to MT that goes something like: There
are things to be learned from bathing a cat that can be learned in no
other way. Anybody know if he actually said it? And can provide a
source?
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:54:46 -0400
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The quote I've seen multiple times is:
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
other way."
Seeing a quote in lots of places is not a guarantee, so further =
verification should be pursued.
Terry Ballard
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:13:58 -0500
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The raft episode inserted into the California edition of AHF:
I get the explanation but cannot seem to get by 2 things:
a. Twain never included it during his lifetime, and
b. Funny, yes, but it just seems incoherent, disturbing the flow of the
story.
Can I hear any further pros and cons on the rationale for including this
section? I chose the California text this semester for the first time, but
am wondering if this is the right text mainly due to the inclusion of the
raft section. (the other secondary materials in this edition are simply
stupendous, btw. And of course I applaud including the illustrations.)
I ask humbly and with all due respect to the terrific editing team at
Berkeley; in fact would welcome additional comments from Bob or any of the
team out there... --hb
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Saint Louis University
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:52 -0400
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Hal,
John Bird gave a terrific paper on this topic an an ALA a few years
back. Argued against inclusion, btw. Call him, but give it a week or
so. He's apparently coping with the beaches of Hawaii right now.
Joe
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:30:22 -0400
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Before I left my previous position in Connecticut, I started a project
taking a bibliography of Twain's early journal writings and adding full
text links when available. That project disappeared from the web shortly
after I left, and I have just revived it and added a number of links
from Google's Book search journal archive. It can be seen now at
http://terryballard.org/professional/twainjournals.html . Moral of this
story - if you want something to endure on the web, don't put it on your
institutional web account. This link will last as long as I do.
Terry Ballard
New York Law School, Mendik Library
New York, NY, 10013
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:18:54 -0700
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I look forward to reading the more serious exchange about the pros and cons
of this editorial decision that you query will probably generate.
But I have become so dependent upon the joys that the name "Child of
Calamity" brings to my classroom environment that even the most compelling
argument against inclusion might not persuade me to give up teaching this
passage.
I also enjoy how students often debate this very question of inclusion in
interesting ways themselves.
Thanks,
Jim Sullivan
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:36 -0400
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Thanks to Terry Ballard for the journal (and other) information he's
compiled and, with the help of his Forum posting, made available. It's
good stuff. --Jim Leonard
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:07:05 -0700
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What a treasure! I stumbled on a piece I'd never read where Mark Twain
anticipated our cell phone visual miracles. Such fun.
http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=cent;cc=cent;rgn=full%20text;idno=cent0057-1;didno=cent0057-1;view=image;seq=0112;node=cent0057-1%3A12
This article, purporting to be from a 1905 edition of the London Times, was
published in 1898.
Arianne Laidlaw
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...couldn't agree more, re. institutionale web sites. Great kudos for a
great research tool!
Wolfgang
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Indeed. That would be Szcepanik ("The Austrian Edison" (who was, by his
parentage at least, a Czech, correct?).
Amusing-- "I resume by cable-telephone where I left off yesterday..."
DDD
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On 03/17/2010 03:17 PM, Darryl Brock wrote:
> I've heard a statement attributed to MT that goes something like: There
> are things to be learned from bathing a cat that can be learned in no
> other way. Anybody know if he actually said it? And can provide a
> source?
"...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty
or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that
started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that
was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim
or doubtful."
--Tom Sawyer Abroad
Alan Eliasen
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Probably Polish according to what I've learned Googling.
Quite an extraordinary guy, judging by his gift for drawing. See this
picture he did of Mark Twain:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Twain_by_Jan_Szczepanik.jpg
He also reminds me of the guy whose work with looms anticipated computers.
I loved a Twain remark comparing inventors with poets. No wonder this
fellow interested him.
Arianne Laidlaw
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:56:55 -0400
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Joe is good to remember this paper, and I appreciate the "terrific"! The
paper was more or less a review of the 3rd edition of the Norton Critical
Edition of Huck Finn. I noted some good points in it, but most were
negative, and one negative point was the inclusion of the raftsmen's
passage. As I recall, my arguments were based on authorial intention, but
even more on the way this long passage takes away from Huck's voice--quite
the longest passage that has us lose the sound of Huck's voice. The second
edition of the NCE included the passage, but as a separate session, along
with arguments for and against. I found that much the better solution.
I'll be interested to hear the rationale for inclusion from the Mark Twain
Papers--althoug as I recall, they explain that in the big version of HF.
I'll send the paper to you when I get home, Hal.
And an aside to my friend Jim Caron: no, I did not come to Hawaii and snub
you! I'm on Maui, at least until tomorrow. I'll be hanging around the
airport tomorrow if you want! :)
John
P.S. Saw quotations from Mark Twain all over the place this week...
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:25:03 -0700
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Jan Szczepanik (correct spelling, with the usual noun clusters) was indeed
Polish, but there was no Poland in the period 1795, when Russia, Prussia and
Austria divvied it up, to 1918. The Tarnow area was legally part of
Austria, so to genealogists he would be Austrian, but never Czech. Born in
present-day Ukraine, then also partly Austrian. So also was Krakow (Cracow
in British English) in the Austrian kingdom, but speaking and writing in
Polish was allowed, whereas in schools and publishing in the native language
was banned in the Prussian and Russian areas. Never heard of Szczepanik
being labeled as the Austrian Edison, but will look it up. =0A=0AGoogle
Translations version of the Polish text below the sketch is pretty accurate,
with just a couple confusing words intruding.
ANSWERS.com query found this:=0AJan Szczepanik (born June 13, 1872 in
Rudniki (near Mostyska), Ukraine - April 18, died 1926 in Tarnow, Poland)
was a Polish inventor.=0A=0ASzczepanik held several hundred patents and made
over 50 discoveries, many of which are still used today, especially in the
motion picture industry, photography, and television.
Some of his ideas influenced the development of television, such as the
telectroscope (an apparatus for distant reproduction of images and sound
using electricity) or the wireless telegraph, which greatly influenced the
development of telecommunications.
Mark Twain met Szczepanik and described him in two of his articles: "The
Austrian Edison keeping school again" (1898) and "From the London Times of
1904" (1898).
References * entry at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs website*
(Polish) Andrzej Pilipiuk, Zapomniany geniusz
--Richard R. in San Francisco (now a Sister City to Krakow)
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:28:49 -0700
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As a child I often repeated a cat-bathing=A0bit=A0I learned from=A0MT-award
laureate Steve Martin's early stand-up album, Let's Get Small.
"I gave my cat a bath the other day," I would offer dead-pan to some adult.
"People say you shouldn't do that, but I didn't have any problems...a lot of
fur got stuck to my tongue, but other than that..."
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Cool to learn more about this. Thanks.
Article about MT and JS -- "Mark Twain and the Austrian Edison"
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3031371
Also, his own piece by that title "The Austrian Edison Keeping School
Again." (1898). Widely available in collections.
DDD
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:08:40 -0700
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I seem to recall a more practical reason for including the passage--as a
way to explain how Huck and Jim came to realize that they had gone past
Cairo. In the deleted "Raftsmen's Passage," Huck relates:
"Ed said if you take the Mississippi on a rise when the Ohio is low,
you'll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the east side of
the Mississippi for a hundred mile or more, and the minute you get out a
quarter of a mile from shore and pass the line, it is all thick and
yaller the rest of the way across."
In Chapter 16 of Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Huck begin to suspect that
they had bypassed Cairo from a variety of clues--"no high ground about
Cairo, Jim said," for example. Confirmation comes when Huck relates:
"When it was daylight, here was the clear Ohio water inshore, sure
enough, and outside was the old regular Muddy! So it was all up with
Cairo."
In other words, the "Raftsmen's passage" is important as a source of
information for Huck and Jim to know when their journey is complete from
a change in the character of the water. I recall having seen this
argument before, but I'm afraid I don't recollect where.
Good day to all!
Best regards,
Jim Edstrom
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:28:06 -0700
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Can anyone tell us more about the telectroscope? The cited article
(first page, anyway) describes it as "the device for transmitting
over wire televised images" - some sort of antecedent to the
television camera? One craves futher details!
Ben
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It's a device that, while apparently patented in Britain, probably never
existed. That's about all I know about it.
But didn't Mark Twain write a short story back in the 1870s that described
two lovers using a sort of television device to hold long distance
conversations? I seem to remember reading a story like that back 40 or so
years ago.
Carl
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On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Carl J. Chimi wrote:
>
> But didn't Mark Twain write a short story back in the 1870s that
> described
> two lovers using a sort of television device to hold long distance
> conversations? I seem to remember reading a story like that back 40
> or so
> years ago.
>
> Carl
YES
The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton
you can hear it (and others at):
http://librivox.org/alonso-fitz-and-other-stories-by-mark-twain/
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I should have done some Googling before I asked about the
telectroscope. The real device is apparently as fascinating a piece
of technological fiction as anything Twain might have written about
its inventor! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telectroscope
However, the idea did not die with Jan Szcsepanik. It was finally
brought to fruition just last year in a breakthrough (in more than
one sense of the word) that should have received more general
recognition than it has. Here's the full report:
http://www.telectroscope.net/ Be sure to read all the links...
(Next I have a bridge in London to sell you).
Ben
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That's the one! Thanks, John.
I wonder what was going on that led Mark Twain to write that story. My
memory is that it was written in the mid-1870s, possibly even before the
telephone was widely known. Does anyone know how the idea was suggested?
Coincidentally, I am in the middle of listening to a reading of Roughing It
that I downloaded from the Librivox site, and have previously listened to
Tom Sawyer from that site. I think the same man read both books and he is
an excellent interpreter if the material, in my opinion.
Thanks again. I will check out Alonzo and Rosannah. Good stuff for my
commute.
Carl
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:13:14 -0400
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I am in the initial stages of starting a long-term project of
recording MArk Twain's short stories and articles for Librivox.org
For "Collection #1", I've already recorded THE FACTS CONCERNING THE
RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT and will follow up with
numerous more...but I need a little help from Twain scholars.
Could someone suggest a list of short stories and articles that would
make sense as "collections"?
I'm thinking that 10-15 "shorts" would be good to have in each
"collection"
Thanks!
(waiting breathlessly in Maine)
-John
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I believe one possible way of dividing up the "shorts" would be:
1) Fiction
2) Non-Fiction
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Greetings:
We have a date for this year's Twain-Twichell walk -- Saturday, May 15.
And this year I have to warn anyone interested that along with the usual
list, I'm sending this email to the staff list of the Mark Twain House &
Museum, where I work full-time now, which includes about 40 guides.
So the walk will fill up fast. We limit the walk to 30 people, because we
walk along un-sidewalked roads for part of the way, and a larger group just
wouldn't be safe. About 10 people have expressed interest already.
So let me know ASAP, even if you think you've told me already! A simple "I'm
in" email will do the trick.
Some of you have not been on the walk before so let me recap quickly. For
about 15 years an informal group of walkers has retraced the route that the
Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell and his good friend Samuel L. Clemens (Mark
Twain) took on walks from the Nook Farm neighborhood in Hartford to the top
of Talcott Mountain in Simsbury. The wooden observation tower that was their
goal stood a few hundred yards from where Heublein Tower stands today.
The distance is about eight miles and the last mile is uphill, so you need
to be ready for some exertion, though we're not trying to break land speed
records. Not a fundraiser either -- the point is to walk, talk, and return
home, as Mark Twain put it, "not with the foot ache but with the jaw ache."
It's free.
Jeff Nichols of The Mark Twain House & Museum and I lead the walk. We meet
at the Mark Twain House parking lot and leave promptly at 9, walking city
streets, suburban roads and finally woodland paths. Once in a while I stop
and talk about the Twain-Twichell friendship, particularly near the site of
Twichell's home on Woodland Street.
We stop for a picnic lunch at Auer Farm, the 4-H farm in Bloomfield, and
read aloud from Twain and Twichell. Then it's up the ridge to Heublein
Tower, where we take in what in their era was known as The Royal View of the
Farmington Valley.
We return to the Mark Twain House in cars, you may be glad to know.
Early-rising volunteers will have left these cars at the Heublein Tower
parking
lot.
We don't rush, and generally get back to the Mark Twain House around 2. If
you'd like to come, let me know quickly, as I said. If you need more
information, email back or call me at 860-589-6412.
As usual, I'll need six volunteers to leave cars at Heublein Tower at about
8:00 in the morning, so let me know if you can do that.
Best,Steve
Steve Courtney
7 Union St.
Terryville, CT 06786
860-589-6412
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Thanks to those who responded to my query in re: ways to organize
Twain's fiction and non-fiction "shorts".
Here's another one:
I've found a Project Gutenberg website containing many Twain
newspaper articles from 1862-1881 collected from several newspaper
archives.
The collection was placed on the PG site in Australia because the
compiler wasn't sure if the articles were still under copyright
protection in the US.
Am I right in concluding that there is NO copyright protection for ANY
work published over 95 years ago?
BTW
Here is the excellent compilation:
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900821h.html
-john
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:44:13 -0400
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Essentially correct. "Published" is the most important word in the
sentence.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
DDD
PS: Under the US laws before 1870, and also for the period 1871-1909,
I'm not sure that articles written for newspapers at that time, unless
individually registered for copyright, would have had any route to (c)
protection in the first place.
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:14:02 -0400
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Since I first posted about this, I've added more than a dozen links by
finding alternate period sources for some of the pieces that didn't have
digital access to that exact journal. By now the access rate looks to be
about two thirds - higher if you are at an institution that provides
JSTOR. I've also started adding some illustrations - just for fun.
For the long term, I'm looking at locating copies of the more obscure
works and digitizing them myself. That won't be any time soon.
http://terryballard.org/professional/twainjournals.html
Terry Ballard
New York Law School, Mendik Library
New York, NY, 10013
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:34:42 -0400
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Subject: Interview with Shelley Fisher Fishkin at The Book Serf
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N.B. I am posting this on behalf of The Book Serf blog. -- K.B.
I just posted a lengthy and fascinating Q&A with Shelley Fisher Fishkin upon
the release of The Mark Twain Anthology which can be read at
www.thebookserf.blogspot.com
Bill Eichenberger
The Book Serf
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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:24:58 -0700
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Wow, Bill the Serf. Big day for Californian Fisher-Fishkin, with "Is He
Dead" opening last night in Petaluma, and you sending this to the Forum.
Richard R. - San Francisco
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:37:11 -0500
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Subject: BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted
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The following review was written for the Mark Twain Forum by Joseph Csicsil=
a.
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BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted
iPHONE APPS
_The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_, $3.99. _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_,
$4.99. Blackstone Audio iPhone Audiobook Apps. By Folium Partners.
Two new Mark Twain audiobooks developed specifically for the iPhone platform
hit the market recently. Developed and distributed by Folium Partners, the
_Tom Sawyer_ and _Huck Finn_ Blackstone Audio iPhone apps each feature
full-length audiobooks organized by chapter with easy-to-use controls,
intuitive designs, and bonus materials that make their $3.99 and $4.99 price
tags, respectively, feel like a real bargain. The centerpiece of each app is
its unabridged audiobook recording. (The _Huck Finn_ omits the oft-debated
"Raftsmen's Passage," however.) Grover Gardner (who reads _Tom Sawyer_) and
Tom Parker (who reads _Huckleberry Finn_) provide professional readings that
are as pleasurable to listen to as they are unobtrusive. Both apps also
offer miscellaneous content that includes short biographies of Twain,
histories of each text, an assortment of fun quizzes (about such subjects as
American history, Mark Twain, the novels and their principal characters)
that score themselves, and a variety of Sam Clemens's most famous
quotations. One only hopes that with the technology of iPhone network
available to app designers, that Blackstone Audio/Folium Partners continue
to update these apps(with new quizzes, for example) and additional
supplementary features.
For more information please visit:
http://www.blackstoneaudioapps.com
Joseph Csicsila
Eastern Michigan University
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:02:44 -0500
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Does anyone have a photos of Helen Keller and Sam? or know where I can find
some. Low resolution is fine, I will be using them in a Powerpoint
presentation.
I ask because I'm giving a talk/slideshow presentation in Easton CT next
week and would like to up the "wow factor".
Thank you,
Brent
p.s. A senior writer from Newsweek visited the Twain House and Museum last
Friday and is planning on doing a story!
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:31:34 -0700
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There are photos of Twain and Keller at these links:
http://www.twainquotes.com/Keller_Helen.html
http://www.helenkellerfoundation.org/slideshow-twain.asp
http://www.afb.org/MyLife/book.asp?ch=P1Ch23
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:38:47 -0500
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Brent--
I have three original snapshots by Isabel Lyon showing her arrival, with
Twain greeting her at the entrance to Stormfield and will be happy to send
you good images.
I'm tied up right now so it could be a day or two...
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:42:56 -0500
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I have not had time to confirm this, but I think John Seelye included a
sequence of Twain/Keller images at Stormfield in his book MT AT THE MOVIES.
I think I have the first three in that sequence. I'm not able check at the
moment, but let me know if you need better images that what Seelye produced.
Keller's later autobiographies also have some images of her with Twain.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX