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1884

Photo courtesy of the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley.	"Eve's Lullaby to Cain." Photo contained in a letter of June 3, 1884, from Hattie Gerhardt to Samuel and Olivia Clemens. Regarding Eve, the art critic for the New York Times wrote: "The plaster group called "Eve's Lullaby" is carefully studied, well posed, graceful, not uncharming. It is, however, merely a nude woman of to-day holding a male baby on her knees, and in no way to be taken for an Eve. She is a round, pleasant-fleshed, stoutish young woman, with a benevolent smile and a well-shaped cranium, and connoisseurs in babies speak of this one with respect. But there is no Eve and no lullaby, except we turn to the catalogue for certain colorless verses on the part of the sculptor." (New York Times, November 16, 1884, p. 4.) (On June 2, 1885, Gerhardt telegrammed Clemens that "Eve's Lullaby" was awarded a diploma of honor at the New Orleans World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition held December 16, 1884 - May 31, 1885.) Current location is unknown.
Both photos of Echo are courtesy of the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley.	Statue known as Echo. Top photo at left was contained in a letter of June 3, 1884, from Hattie Gerhardt to Samuel and Olivia Clemens. On June 6, 1885, (one year later) Gerhardt asked permission from Clemens to reclaim Echo, make a duplicate for Clemens and exhibit the original in Tiffany's gallery. The statue was once in Clemens' home as shown in the photo below which is courtesy of The Mark Twain House, Hartford, CT. Current location of Echo (or a duplicate) is unknown. A New Orleans Times Democrat newspaper story dated March 19, 1909, gave the location of the sculpture as being in the Paris Salon. Anyone with information as to her location, please contact me.
INDIAN ON HORSEBACK FIGHTING A PANTHER PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE	Mentioned in a letter from Karl Gerhardt to Samuel Clemens dated May 29, 1884.
(from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.) (from Harper's Weekly, courtesy of Dave Thomson)	Bust of Clemens created during the summer of 1884 after Gerhardt's return from Paris. The sculpture was displayed in Clemens's Hartford home. A photo of the sculpture was used as a frontispiece for the first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. An artist's illustration of the bust appeared in Harper's Weekly April 7, 1887 to accompany an article about Samuel Clemens. The art critic for the New York Times, after criticizing Gerhardt's "Eve's Lullaby," wrote glowingly of the Clemens bust: "The bronze bust of Mark Twain, however, is another matter. Apparently a labor of love, it is dignified, individual, largely modeled, and does more than justice to the humorist while keeping a capital likeness." (New York Times, November 16, 1884, p. 4.)

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