Mac in the Sandwich Islands: This is certainly the kind of research the Papers / Project at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley was established. Surely if you write a letter to them, you'll get permission to hop over to Oakland or San Francisco to look into the question. They're always short on funds, so the regular under-staff may not be able to do the job themselves, or at least not in a hurry. At an all-night Twain reading for the Sesquicentennial in S.F. in 1985, some people brought and presented items from his Sandwich Island Lectures. According to legend and fact, he was broke on coming back from his first journey there, so he hired a hall and did up his famous "The Trouble Begins at 8" poster, and it got him a good (paying) crowd to come learn and laugh. Out of the lectures, he got the grant to travel and take notes for "Innocents Abroad," which modern journalists credit (along with the Hawaii talks and writings) as being the genesis of modern travel writing. Nobody read from a novel about Hawai'i/Sandwiches - which isn't to say he didn't start one. Richard R (Lodz, Poland)