At 03:39 PM 2/2/97 -0500, Mary Leah Christmas wrote: >Twain did have red hair; don't know about this "apparent >self-report" of brown hair. > The "self-report" rumor page comes to mind's eye, without a title. Might remember later. You, Barbara S., and Howells must be respected. Felicity arrives with your notes! A Rose is a Rose is a Rose-- by any color etc. >. I >may yet re-work my article into one about Twain and his >"Red-Headed League" of friends, which included the famed >sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. All sensible persons will look for your report... .please notify us . . . .will you deal with Sherlock Holmes' too? It is social science and will make good reading around hair salons too. >(An aside: Last I knew, the wax museum at the Haunted House >on Hill Street, in Hannibal, had Twain incorrectly sporting >dark brown eyes! Twain's daughter, Susy, wrote that "Papa >always wares [sic] grey to match his hair and eyes.") > If they would do wax people in black and white... But color! -- That's half the artform in wax reenactments. What's next-- a wick coming out their heads? Hope you called them...as a public service, as I once called the Wax Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, after they dyed a notorious person colors never seen on them in life. >Regards, > >Mary Leah Christmas