No one seems to have a complete list of the books published by C. L. Webster
&
Company, though by combining _Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers_ and
_Mark
 Twain, Business Man_ one ends up with a pretty full list.  Even the folks
in
Berkeley don't have a complete list; and Webster apparently never published
any
 catalogue to help future scholars.  The Mark Twain Papers does have quite a
few sales books -- prospecti, I suppose -- as do most archival libraries of
Americana.  By the bye, much has been made of the failure of the biography
of
Pope Leo XIII in the failure of Webster & Co., but it was the multi-volume
set,
 _The Library of American Literature_, which sank the place.  Charley
Webster's
 final acquisition would have made nearly as much money as Grant's memoirs,
in
time, but the payment plan Webster set up for the sets meant an interim
drain
on the company's resources.  Fred Hall had to borrow to cover the
short-fall --
 from a bank instead of SLC, who had no cash left after the typesetter --
but
Webster's friend Daniel Whitford arranged the loan, probably so that he
could
call it in later, and thereby avenge the by-then-dead Charley Webster's
memory.
It's a sordid and ugly tale, but someone's got to tell it.

Andy Hoffman