Dear Friends-
   I attended the New York Library Association Annual conference in
Niagara Falls in November of 1993. I an quoting from the Luncheon
Keepsake brochure:

The Complete Manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Reunited at
Last. The speakers were William H. Loos, Curator, Rare Book Room,
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library

Victor A. Doyno, Prof. of English Lit, at SUNY at Buffalo

Roland R. Benzow, Attorney and Former Chairman of the Library's
Board of Trustees

The Background

On recieving a letter requesting a manusxript for the Young Men's
Association
Library of Buffalo, NY, from James Fraser Gluck, a young attorney and a
curator of the library, Samuel L. Clemens of Hartford, generously offered
to send the manuscript of his recently published novel, Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Clemens had himself once been a dues-paying member
of the YMA when he lived in Buffalo (1869-71), a fact apparently not known
to Mr. Gluck. Mr. Clemens, however, had difficulties in finding all of the
various parts of the manuscript. the problem may have been due to the fact
that for more than seven years he labored, off-and-on, over text of what is
today regarded as his greatest novel.

It is now believed that Mr. Clemens sent the manuscript to the YMA Library
in at least three sections between November 1885 and July of 1887:

The first section arrived in November 1885: Title page sketch, chapters
12 1/2-14, chapters 22-30, Chapters 38-43 (Last chapter is 43). Gluck
had these 487 leaves quickly bound.

The second section arrived probably in 1886, but no documentation has
been found as to the precise date.: Chapters 31-37. Never bound. 209 leaves.

The third group arrived in July of 1887: Mark Twain's "Notice",
Chapters 1-12 1/2, chapters 15-21. These have also never been bound. 665
leaves.

Total leaves 1361.

In his letter of acknowledgement to Mr. Clemens, Mr. Gluck indicated that
this section would be bound and placed on public exhibition.

Note: Chapter 16 the "Raftsmen's Episode," first published in Life on the
Mississippi (1883), but not used in the novel.

Long believed to be irretrievably lost or destroyed, these last 665 leaves
were found in a Hollywood attic in the fall of 1990 by one of Mr. Gluck's
Granddaaughters.

After many months of litigation, an agreement was reached bu the Public
Library, the Gluck family and the Mark Twain Foundation Trust on the fate
of the newly discovered leaves. The 2 halves were reunited in Buffalo on
July 28, 1992, one hundred and five years after the last time they were
together.

The above text was written by William H. Loos. It sounds to me like the
litigation was over and the decision made back then. Has something new
happened?

Mary Lou Caskey
Mid-York Library System
Utica, NY