What Kent said, plus one double-down:

Our contributors were generous and hard-working, and put their very best 
efforts into this project. Although I had high expectations for the book, 
the result exceeded them.

This might be a good time to remind everyone that there is space left at the 
Mark Twain & Youth Symposium to be held at Quarry Farm on Oct 7-8. All of 
the sessions and meals on Saturday will be at Quarry Farm. That's right, all 
day at Quarry Farm. Never mind the sessions and collegiality; you'll be at 
Quarry Farm all day long. Did I mention All Day At Quarry Farm?

Many of you have attended the Elmira Conferences and had an evening dinner 
at Quarry Farm, and some of you have stayed there as a visiting scholar. 
Anyone who has spent any time there at all can attest that spending all day 
there in the Fall is magical.

Here's a link for registration:

http://www.elmira.edu/pdfs/academics/Dear.Friends.December.2015.newsletter.pdf


Kevin
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Rasmussen
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 4:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: BOOK REVIEW: _Mark Twain and Youth_, Mac Donnell and Rasmussen, 
eds.

When a book review this positive appears, questions of its authorship ten=
d
to arise. Indeed, more than one person has already asked me whether Kevin=

and I wrote the review ourselves. Well, we didn't. Steve Courtney did.
Moreover, we can prove it because we've got the canceled check we wrote t=
o him.

Seriously, we're grateful to Steve for his kind words about our book and
about our editing of it. I'm proud to have a played a small part in the
book's creation, but I would like the world to know that the book was
entirely Kevin's idea. Equal credit also goes to our team of contributors=
,
with each of whom it was a joy to work. Their enthusiasm and commitment t=
o
making the book a success are the main reason the book is as good as it i=
s.

That said, I'll also offer thanks to Steve for his thoughtful and generou=
s
review. Neither Kevin nor I said a word to him about his review before he=

wrote it, so I'm especially pleased he made a point I had expressed while=
we
were working on the book--that Hal Holbrook's foreword alone is worth the=

price of admission.

Finally, lest there be any misunderstanding on this point--Steve, like al=
l
the book's contributors, is not making a nickel's profit from it.