Gregg,

I guess anyone can *look* like he knows a lot if he's sitting in the
middle of Mark Twain's Papers, progressively better organized and indexed
in various ways since Paine's time (but including Paine, of course). And I
certainly didn't know that Holley was worried about her illustrator just
the way Orion was about Sam's. Besides, it's the stuff that isn't already
here in the files that's hardest to come by. Complacency in the midst of
all these files is a real danger, and is certainly not too strong a word
in this context, given what Barbara Schmidt is finding.

How are you? Come back.

Bob Hirst
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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Gregg Camfield wrote:

> >      On the other hand, anything Barb finds out about True W. Williams will
> >      be of great interest to the editors here in the Mark Twain Project.
> >      We know almost nothing about him beyond what Clemens, Orion, and
> >      sometimes Bliss have said in their several letters.
> >
> >      Robert H. Hirst
> >      General Editor, Mark Twain Project
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> >
> Bob,
>         As usual, your "almost nothing" eclispes the little I know.
>
>                                         Gregg