According to local newspaper accounts, a Hope-Jones organ was installed in
Ocean Grove, NJ's Great Auditorium in 1908 at a cost of $26,000 "half of
which was donated by the organ company, of which Mark Twain was one of the
officials."

Nothing on this transaction shows up on the LISTSERV database, and, alas, I
do not have access to Machlis'  Union  Catalog of Clemens letters.

Does anyone have any information on Twain's association with the organ
company, or on any association with Ocean Grove, NJ.  U.S. Grant, who had a
home in neighboring Elberon, NJ,  was a frequent visitor in his later years.

Rhoda Newman
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