I tend to agree but I'm not writing about Wright. 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" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 2:56 AM Subject: Re: Laura Wright > Regardless of whom the platonic sweetheart may be, it seems likely that > Laura Wright is the "pretty girl of sixteen" Twain wrote of in chapter > 12 of Life on the Mississippi. He does not give her name. > > On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 17:39 -0600, Kevin Mac Donnell wrote: >> 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 >> > > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6998 - Release Date: 01/13/14 >