According to _M.T. A to Z_, "Emmeline's literary inclinations" were modeled after Twain's "_Quaker City_ shipmate Bloodgood H. Cutter and the popular contemporary versifier Julia A. Moore" (181). Cutter, the "Poet Lariat" of _Innocents Abroad_, is mentioned in _I.A._ chapters 7, 10, and 37, but not by name. He published _The Long-Island Farmer's Poems: Lines Written on the "Quaker City" Excursion_ in 1886 at his own expense. (103-104) Moore "was a popular writer of sentimental and banal verses, particularly obituary poetry . . . Twain bought a copy [of her 1876 _Sentimental Song Book_] soon after it was first published and seems to have enjoyed dipping into it through the rest of his life . . . [_H.F._ illustrator] Kemble's rendering of Emmeline's 'spidery' woman bears an uncanny resemblance to Moore" (322). _A-Z_ also notes another parady attributed to Moore in Ch. 8 of _Following the Equator_, and Moore excerpts in _F. the E._ Ch. 36 & 44. larry marshburne [log in to unmask]