Hi Susan, For years we called the dog "Hash" until learning a few months ago that someone had misread "Fl" as "H" - making the dog's name "Flash." The correction came to us from our friends at Berkeley, so they likely have more details. Hope this helps a little. Bless the folks at Berkeley! Cindy ________________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Harris, Susan Kumin <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 8:46 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Query Dear All, This is a query re the photograph of Twain, Livy, and the girls outside the= Hartford house, sometime in the 80s, I assume. They are sitting on the st= eps of the veranda and there is a large dog stretched out in front of them.= I would like to know a little bit about the dog. Did it belong to the Cl= emens family? Name? Breed? Anyone know? Many thanks. --susan harris Susan K. Harris Hall Professor of American Literature University of Kansas Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902