There is an article online today (Jan. 1, 2001) in the San Francisco Chronicle that may be of interest regarding a series of audio tapes produced by and available from the University of California, Bancroft Library: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/01 /MN87255.DTL Of special interest to Twain list subscribers will be the two lectures by Dr. Robert Hirst on Mark Twain titled "Those Were the Days!" and "Heaven on the Half-Shell." Hirst tells the story of how Clemens came to the West, what he did there, and why he stayed longer than he planned, eventually adopting the name "Mark Twain" to sign his letters to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. Hirst reads from a number of little known surviving Twain contributions to the Territorial Enterprise that have been recovered by the editors of the Mark Twain Project. Among these are "Ministerial Change" and "Explanation of a Mysterious Sentence." Barb