Thanks to Henry Feldman for the find! Twain wrote Frances Nunnally, Dec. 29/07, "I wish you were here, so that I could have you at dinner this evening & show you off . . . It's a small dinner, for stage friends: John Drew & his wife, Will Gillette, & Billie Burke--excellent folk, & Billie is as good as she is pretty." The footnote: "Actress Billie Burke was becoming a good friend of Clemens and visited him at Stormfield in 1909. Clemens had probably seen her as Julia in _My Wife_, which was her New York debut performance in August 1907." Source: John Cooley's 1991 _Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Angelfish Correspondence--1905-1910_, p. 87-88. larry marshburne [log in to unmask]