At 06:52 PM 2/27/97 -0500, Barbara Schmidt wrote: >When Adlai E. Stevenson was running for President in 1952, it was >reported that he wrote a letter to Cyril Clemens blaming Mark Twain >for the confusion surrounding the mispronunciation of his >name: > >While my grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson, was Vice President - Mark >Twain was at a luncheon where grandfather was a guest. The newspapers of >the time quoted Mark Twain as follows on the pronunciation of my first >name: > >'Philologists sweat and lexicographers bray, >But the best they can do is to call him Ad-lay. >But at longshoremen's picnics, where accents are high, >Fair Harvard's not present, so they call him Ad-lie.' > >Adlai Stevenson was Vice President 1893-1897. Does anyone know the date or >occasion when Twain might made have made such a speech? > >Barb > > Dear Barb, I have enjoyed this letter several times; then one of my own thoughts struck me, and I fell to the floor, slightly bruised but still semi-conscious. His use of hundred dollar words would be lost on any but the elite-erati of his day-- with me so far? If you have a list of his itinerary, find one where James J. Kilpatrick was likely to be present. If this helps answer your question, I am glad to be of help. If not, perhaps you could help by narrowing the question from "Does anyone know...?" to Does "So-and So know....?" Mike