I'd like to second the comments about Neider's contributions to Twain's legacy. A couple of decades ago, it wasn't easy to find pieces like "In Defense of Harriet Shelley" outside of his Complete Essays volume, and the same is true of the volumes of short stories and sketches & tales. I wonder how many people in the '60s and '70s had a Twain collection that consisted entirely of these three books and Neider's edition of the autobiography? More than a few, I bet, especially if you count only hardback books and not Signet Classic versions of Huckleberry Finn and the others. Bob G.