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Why can't I find any stories of that time Mark Twain and Walt Whitman tried to dig up the grave of Elias Hicks to make a plaster cast of his head? Is there a c
by swamp40 8y ago
Why can't I find any stories of that time Mark Twain and Walt Whitman tried to dig up the grave of Elias Hicks to make a plaster cast of his head? Is there a conspiracy of silence going on here? What good is the internet if not for tracking down obscure details of events like this?
- defen 8y agoThat was Samuel E. Clements, not Samuel L. Clemens, and Whitman wasn't involved; he was just an apprentice for Clements at the newspaper Clements edited. Clements did succeed at digging up the grave, but apparently the mold and busts were destroyed during an argument over money. Source: Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David Reynolds
- swamp40 8y agoAhh, I see. Well that certainly explains things. Thanks!