The MTP has routinely been given photocopies of letters, inscriptions, and marginalia by the major auction houses over the years, and Twain's copy of OUR WILD INDIANS was sold at Christie's some years back, so MTP may very well have copies of the marginalia. Your question raises a valid issue: the withholding of material from scholars by collectors and dealers. As a collector of Twain material, and a dealer in a much broader range of literary materials, I have little sympathy for those who keep such material hidden from view. When I purchased Twain's heavily annotated copy of Lecky some years ago, I immediately made it avaliable to Alan Gribben. Until that time only a handful of the annotations (on slavery, religion, morality, western thought and social trends, etc.) had been shared by the previous owner, each dribbled out one or two at a time in a kind of sleazy strip-tease. I later got in touch with Elmira (where Theodore Crane's copy of Lecky survives, also with a few Twain annotations) and they readily agreed to share those annotations for publication when I published the annotations in my copy. I have since contacted a publisher, bought a copy of the same edition as Twain's copy, and am now slowly making progress as time permits in laying out camera ready copy for a "type-facsimile" edition that will reproduce Twain's annotations as they appear in the original Lecky text. Making an actual photo-facsimile of every annotation would destroy the original book, but a carefully edited facsimile of the kind I have begun to compile, will make all of the annotations available in their original context to the entire community of scholars, and allow scholars themselves to draw their own professional conclusions. Indeed, what purpose would be served if I were to keep this book hidden away for my private amusement or with the dream of future profits? And don't we all wish that the Lecky annotations had been shared with Walter Blair, Ham Hill, Lou Budd, Al Gribben, and a host of others years ago? Of course, if they had been, I might have had to pay even more for it than I did... Kevin Mac Donnell Austin TX