FINALLY!! I can report that a transcription of the Twain article from 1868 about a US -China treaty, has been posted on Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/3/0/7/33077/33077-h/33077-h.htm As many of you know, this article was first posted on the Journal of Transnational American Studies, American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, UC Santa Barbara: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r87m203 along with an analysis piece by Martin Zehr: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5t02n321 -John Greenman