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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. KEMBLE, E.W. An original pen & ink drawing of the runaway slave Jim for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), 202 x 161mm. (8 x 6 3/8in.), very slight marginal soiling, two marginal pinholes, remnants of mounting on verso , signed, labeled by Kemble at the bottom margin in pencil: "Chap 40. I doan' go from heah widout a doctor. Pge 191," with two other marginal editorial pencil notes. In very good condition. The drawing is for the illustration captioned "Jim Advises a Doctor" that appears on page 345 (in Chapter XL) of the first American edition, showing Jim, "disguised" in a woman's dress, adamantly stating that he would not budge [despite the possibility of his being captured] until a doctor is brought to attend to Tom Sawyer's gunshot wound. "So he [Jim] says: 'Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz him [Tom] dat 'us bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, "Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?" Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You bet he wouldn't! Well , den, is Jim gwyne to say it? No, sah -- I doan' budge a step out'n dis place, 'dout a doctor ' not if it's forty year!' I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he'd say what he did say -- so it was all right, now, and I told Tom I was agoing for a doctor..." ( Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , New York, 1885, p. 345).