One of the disappointments of my life was examining the Autobiographical
Dictations at the Mark Twain Papers.  They show Mark Twain being very
self-indulgent.  I do not expect to see an edition of the so-called
autobigraphy published in my lifetime, and though I expect to feel many
disappointments at the end of my life, seeing that publication will not be
one of them.  See the account in my THE AUTHENTIC MARK TWAIN, written
before Kiskis's magisterial edition.

Everett Emerson