Happy Thanksgiving!

        I am delighted to report that at this writing  Hal Holbrook is
planning to come to San Francisco on December 28th to be honored in person
by  the Mark Twain Circle of America with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
         The award will be presented the night of December 28th at 9:00
P.M. in the Mark Twain Circle Suite in the San Francisco Downtown Marriott.
The presentation will be followed by an informal conversation with Holbrook
about his forty years of portraying Twain on stage.
        I loook forward to sharing this special occasion with you!

         (The San Francisco Downtown Marriott is on Fourth St. between
Market and Mission. The room number for the Mark Twain Circle/American
Humor Studies Association suite won't be assigned until the convention.  To
find out the room number, look for signs in the MLA registration area or
call Shelley Fisher Fishkin  either at Marriott's main number or from a
house phone in the Marriott when you arrive. It is not necessary to be
registered for the Convention to attend events in the Mark Twain Circle
Suite).


Shelley Fisher Fishkin
University of Texas