A researcher has written seeking information regarding any connections between "Father of the American Band" Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892) and Mark Twain. In a letter to the Alta California published July 25, 1869 Twain writes about his first visit to Boston: "As it was early March that I was there, I cannot say anything about the great Peace Jubilee, for that enterprise had hardly been thought of at that time, in fact, I did not suggest it to Gilmore until about the first of April." Twain mentions Gilmore's Boston Peace Jubilee again in the Galaxy in July 1870 in his column "Unburlesquable Things." Any other citations or references in Twain's writings to Patrick S. Gilmore would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Barb