Hi, all. As I scurry to compile a most thorough upcoming presentation on the friendship and associations of Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass I have pondered on Mark Twain's connections and/or relationship with Hartford's Black community during his years living there. I have reviewed available sources on Twain and John T. Lewis and George Griffin but am looking moreso for Twain's possible philanthropy and/or more general interactions with and towards Hartford's Black community. I have been able to confirm the relationships of Douglass to several members of Hartford's Black community while Twain is a resident. My inquiry is in possibly connecting Douglass associates to Twain in Hartford's Black community. More specifically I am trying to determine / confirm any possible connections between Twain and the Saunders Brothers merchant / tailor store at 254 Main street in Hartford and/or Thomas P. Saunders of Hartford who hosted Frederick Douglass on at least one of his stays in the city. Could Twain have patronized this establishment? Saunders was an influential member of Hartford's community and reports indicated he was for a time a tailor in Paris. I have cross-referenced several available resources (city directories, etc), databases (Twain at UC Berkeley) and have done extensive google searches but thought this group may know of a source(s) I am overlooking. In *The Primus Papers: An Introduction to Hartford's Nineteenth Century Black Community *(1995) the singular reference to Twain is not related to Hartford. I am looking for any scholarship that may have situated Twain within and/or connected to Hartford's Black community similarly to Prof. Matt Seybold's recent scholarship Twain and the Black community in Elmira, New York. Some of these questions will take time to better understand but I thought it a proper courtesy to ask this group for potential direction towards any scholars or works of scholarship that may help to better understand Twain and Hartford's Black community. Thank you for your time and help. respectfully, John Muller