I am researching the relationship between Joel Chandler Harris
(Uncle Remus author) and MT. Does anyone know how I can confirm the
date of a visit by Harris to Hartford in the spring of 1883? It is
mentioned in several Harris research sources, and MT mentions the
visit (without a date) in his autobiography. But I cannot determine
when in the spring of 1883 this visit took place. I have checked
several of the books recommended by this forum; also checked standard
periodical indexes and the NT Times index for 1883, with no luck. I
even wrote to the Twain House in Hartford. They wrote back a nice
letter but did not know the date of the visit. My best guess is
between early April, when George Washington Cable was visiting Twain,
and mid-June, when Twain left Hartford to spend the summer in Elmira.
If anyone can answer this mystery or suggest resources to solve it,
I'd be grateful. If this visit took place, this was one of two
personal meetings between Twain and Harris, who admired each other
and corresponded over several years in the 1880s. The other was in
New Orleans in the spring of 1882, when Harris met Twain and Cable in
Cable's hometown.

Brian O'Shea
The Joel Chandler Harris page http://www.ajc.com/staff/oshea/snap.
htm
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