Also of interest regarding this topic is the letter SLC sent home to
his mother on 2? January 1864 advising her to treat the author Fitz
Hugh Ludlow, author of _Hasheesh Eater_ (1857) well if he came her
way.  The letter is online at:

http://www.marktwainproject.org

Ludlow, former editor of _Vanity Fair_ had written high praise of Mark
Twain in a San Francisco newspaper.  Ludlow's biographer Donald P.
Dulchinos, _Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow,
Hasheeh Eater_ (1998), features a chapter on Twain and Ludlow titled
"The Hasheeh Infant and the Washoe Giant."

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