In his essay on "Illustrating Huck Finn," Kemble also said that he'd never drawn "negroes" before his work on MT's novel, but that is certainly an error. "The Thompson Street Poker Club" was a regular feature of Life magazine in the Spring of 1884, while MT was looking about for an illustrator, and for that feature Kemble regularly drew caricatures of African Americans. The picture below appeared in Life on 10 April 1884: