In an article titled "Mark Twain's Friendship with Emeline Beach" which appeared inA_Am. Literature_, Nov. 1947, p. 225, info is given on the friendship that developed between Clemens & Beach on the Quaker City voyage. The article states Emeline later married Abbott Handerson Thayer. Was Emeline the mother of Gerald Thayer who was romantically linked with Jean Clemens in Hamlin Hill's _Mark Twain: God's Fool_? Barb