On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> posting I focused on his implication above that the words I use in the
> "Paris" quotation are not precisely correct.  Looking at the electronic
> Twain letters edition I see that my text is slightly different from what
> is given there.  In my defense let me say that I got my text from a Mark
> Twain Papers-derived article in Bancroftiana, Nov. 1981!  But I am happy

Actually the discrepancies are matters of punctuation and capitalization
rather than wording.

Fred Shapiro