she soon became mabel loomis todd and she is best known today as he person that edited and published the poetry of emily dickinson and later wrote total eclipses of the sun and is well known for touring with the older brother and so there's all this great gossip but in the end david todd is an interesting guy but the most important to me is my main characters had the eclipse of 1878 and in the end really didn't. yes, one more question. you have a couple of mentioning this but i wonder did he get interested i know there is a quote about i came in with haley's comet. can you tell us about that? he was prominent second 1878 and unfortunately he wasn't in america at the time of the eclipse. i had hoped he had seen or commented on it but he came out with a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court. and i don't know whether it inspired him at all i think the story that he tells is where the character is trying to escape by predicting the sun is going to go away but he knew that because he had an almanac that told him that it was going to happen. columbus had an almanac that told him a sola

their life story is interesting because mabel loomis who soon became mabel loomis todd, the two of themlived an interesting life in an earnest massachusetts and she is known as the person who first edited and published the poetry of emily dickinson and she wrote a book called total eclipses of the sun and is very well known. there's all this great stuff but it seemed a little too gossipy. what was most important to me is that my main characters have to have something during the eclipse of 1878 and in the end he really didn't but i would have loved to include that story in the book. >> you had a couple of mentions in there but i wondered did he get interested? i know the quote about i came in with healey's comments and expected. can you tell us about that? >> mark twain, yes obviously he was very prominent back in 1878. he unfortunately wasn't in america at the time of the eclipse committee was in europe today i hoped that he had seen it or commented on it. i think it was a little bit after that he came out with king arthur's court which had the key plot point between the solar eclipse a

about their life stories were interesting because mabel loomis who became mabel loomis todd, the two of them but of interesting life and she is best known today as the person who first edited and published the poetry of emily dickinson. she wrote a book called total eclipses of the sun later on. , she's very well known for having an affair with emily dickinson's older brother who was himself married. so there's this great gossipy stuff. but it seemed a little too gossipy. in the in, david todd was interesting to read an interesting life. but was see most important to me was my main characters had to have something at stake during the clips of 1878. in the end, he really didn't. i would've loved to have included that whole story in the book. >> about mark train, you have a couple mentions in there, but i wondered, did he more than these various quotes, did he get interested? in others a quote about i came in with haley's come can you tell us about that? >> mark twain and obviously he was very prominent back in 1878. unfortunately he was not in america at the time of the clips. he was