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1882

MALE FIGURE WITH WINGS PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE - LOCATION UNKNOWN	In a letter dated June 6, 1882, Samuel Clemens wrote a critique of one of Gerhardt's sculptures: ...while the male figure wings are spread for flight, the rest of him seems to have stopped to consider; I mean the rest of him does not betray action.**
ST. SEBASTIAN PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE - LOCATION UNKNOWN	In a letter dated June 14, 1882, Gerhardt wrote Clemens that he was working on a sculpture of St. Sebastian.
	Statue of Mercury won an award at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. It is mentioned in a letter dated July 11, 1882 from Joseph Twichell to Samuel Clemens. Twichell wrote, "Mercury meditating, or in a sitting figure, half life size--a reduced copy of the antique, lovely." Samuel Clemens also mentioned Mercury in a letter to the Gerhardt's dated January 14, 1883. On February 6, 1883, Gerhardt wrote Clemens that his statue of Mercury was a 2/3 size replica of one that Gerhardt had placed in the Museum at Naples. Mercury required 140 hours of labor. Currently owned by the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. Photo courtesy of the Mark Twain House.
PANDORA PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE - LOCATION UNKNOWN	In a letter dated November 2, 1882, Gerhardt wrote Clemens that he was working on a statue of Pandora and trying to capture the look on her face after she has dropped her box.

** Passages from previously unpublished letters: Copyright 2001 by Richard A. Watson and Chase Manhattan Bank as Trustees of the Mark Twain Foundation, which reserves all reproduction or dramatization rights in every medium. Quotation is made with the permission of the University of California Press and Robert H. Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project.

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