The San Francisco Chronicle has said ok to submit the Twain "suicide considered" to the Forum, if wanted. Here's what the writer of the piece David Kipen wrote: "go right ahead and post it, if the piece doesn't strike you as too journalistic and middlebrow. i'm flattered you'd even consider it. "all finest, david" ------------------------------------ I'M SUBMITTING IT AS A SEPARATE POST, AS SOON AS I RE-CORRECT ALL THE FORMATTING IT LOST WHEN I SAVED IT. -Richard Reineccius, San Francisco CA/ Lodz PL > >The journalist is > >David Kipen at <[log in to unmask]>. I wrote > >Kipen a note, which is > >as yet unanswered, suggesting the full article be > >published on this > >Forum. > > > >If I remember right, Clemens of the SF CALL was > >losing his job right > >about then, before accepting one with The San > >Francisco Dramatic > >Chronicle (later shortened by deleting the word > >"Dramatic"). The latter > >was at first published as a theatrical program with > >added news of the > >day gotten from a private telegraph receiver. It > >was born on the 16th > >of January 1865, and is the one Kipen writes for > >today... ---------------------- -0-