I've got a folder stuffed with research and have begun working it into shape. 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: "Rick Talbot" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Laura Wright > Kevin, > Your research is stunning and much to be relied upon. I look forward to > your > revealing a new and as yet undisclosed sweetheart. Please give to us the > full accounting of it that we are so royally used to. Best to Donna. > Rick > > Richard Talbot > 1531 West Idaho Avenue > Falcon Heights, MN 55108-2118 > (651) 280 8734 > (651) 646-6624 > > [log in to unmask] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather > Morgan > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:08 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Laura Wright > > Kevin - you are an absolute Twain wizard! Every time you post > something,=20 > I learn yet more about Mark Twain. Can't wait to hear more later this=20 > year. > With thanks, Heather. > =C2=A0 > =C2=A0 > =C2=A0On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 09:41 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell wrote: > =C2=A0 > =C2=A0> Howard Baetzhold wrote a piece connecting Laura Wright with > Twain's= > =20 > essay >> (My Platonic Sweetheart) in American Literature 44 (Nov 1972).=20 >> Somebody else suggested Susy Clemens as a "platonic sweetheart" in the=20 >> MTJ (Winter 1981-82). Before his Smithsonian piece, Ron Powers=20 >> included a good account of Laura Wright in his 2005 Twain biography.=20 >> More recently Alicia Tromp has rejected those flesh & blood models for=20 >> Twain's essay in her article in American Literary Realism (Platonic=20 >> Parody) 46:1 (Fall, 2013). >> >> I'll have more to say about Twain's various "sweethearts" when I=20 >> reveal a previously unknown one later this year. >> >> 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" To: Sent: Sunday,=20 >> January 12, 2014 2:48 AM >> Subject: Laura Wright >> >> >>>=20 >>> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/mark-twain-in-love-14530235/?= > all >>> >>> I just came across this article and thought I'd mention it to the=20 >>> list. >>> This is the first I've heard of Laura Wright nor have I seen "My >>> Platonic Sweetheart". Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts=20 >>> about >>> this piece in the Smithsonian. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6996 - Release Date:=20 >>> 01/12/14 >>> >> > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6996 - Release Date: 01/12/14 >