A new file is available from the Mark Twain Forum filelist, containing a
series of three newspaper articles that give an overview of the life of
MT.  The author, Russell Smith <[log in to unmask]>, is an educator living
in Sweetwater, Texas.  On April 29, 1994, he was awarded the Texas State
Teachers Association School Bell Award for Best Continuing Column for
1993.  This series of revised articles on Mark Twain first appeared in his
column Perspective in August of 1991 in the Sweetwater Reporter News.  Mr.
Smith grants full and free use of his articles for educators and
researchers.

The file is about 3,000 words long, and the three columns are titled: "The
Legend of Mark Twain"; "Was Mark Twain a Racist?"; and "The Wit and Wisdom
of Mark Twain."  To retrieve a copy of this file, send a message to either
<[log in to unmask]> or <[log in to unmask]> containing the single
line:

     GET LEGEND MT TWAIN-L

To see the complete Mark Twain Forum filelist, send the command:

     INDEX TWAIN-L

Please be careful to send these commands to LISTSERV, not to TWAIN-L.

If you have a file or set of files that you'd like to make available to
Forum subscribers in this same fashion (e.g., an article you've written,
and for which you retain the copyright, or for which you desire
subscribers' comments and suggestions), send it directly to me at
<[log in to unmask]>, and I'll be happy to add it to the filelist.  You
can save me some time and effort by pre-formatting your file as follows:

     a.   Each paragraph should be indented five spaces, and there
          should be a blank line between each paragraph.

     b.   Indicate italics (e.g., for book titles) with surrounding
          underscores; for example, _The Adventures of Huckleberry
          Finn_.

     c.   Em-dashes are represented by two hyphens with no surrounding
          spaces (a long dash looks--like this).

     d.   Use double-quotation marks (") for titles of short works and
          quoted speech; single-quotation marks (') should enclose a
          quotation that is within a larger quotation.

     e.   Please do a spell check.

The preferred file format for submissions is WordPerfect or Microsoft
Word, but plain ASCII text is also acceptable if the file is neatly
formatted, and the left and right margins are at columns 0 and 75 (in
order that text does not straddle the line breaks).

Taylor Roberts
University of British Columbia