Somebody raised the issue of books dedicated to Twain, and I've finally had time to locate a few on my shelves (I'm certain I've missed some): Bowen THE MASTER OF STAIR 1907 Van Vorst WOMAN WHO TOILS 1903 Paine SHIP-DWELLERS. 1910 Knowles A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 1902 Phillpotts THE HUMAN BOYS AGAIN 1908 (I have the dedication copy inscribed by Twain, given to him by Phillpotts) Patton JAPANESE TOPSYTURVY-DOM 1896 Quick CHANGING WINDS 1935 Years ago I searched for Twain dedications among books by the phunny phellows, prolific fellow authors and friends like Riley, Higginson, Howells, Warner, Stowe, Matthews, Hutton, etc. --and found none. Surprising not to have found any dedication from Howells. A search through Gribben for dedication copies would likely yield good results, as would some clever key-word searches in the letters to/from and the CD-ROM, and I'd be surprised if some Missouri authors and some modern day self-styled humorous writers would not have tried to inflate the value of their literary currency with a Twain dedication. Besides formal dedications of books, there is also a sub-genre of poems dedicated to Twain, all uniformly bad no matter who the poet. And there are some oddball books like Bloodgood Cutter's POEMS which is not formally dedicated to Twain, but he plays up the title Twain bestowed on him during the Quaker City voyage and places Twain's portrait where a dedication would usually appear in any book authored by a sane person. Hope this is helpful. Kevin