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 steps 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 Clemens 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