dear listers... While at the MTP last week I came across a note in one of the financial files I was working on that listed a 100 page 19 cm Sam's unsigned cash book, dated 28 Nov 1856 to 2 Jan 1883, at the Berg Collection, NY Public Library. I confirmed its existence on the NYPL website, but there is no further information there given, and I have not see any citations elsewhere concerning this document. Since it may contain dates, places, expenditures, etc., I am very interested in it. I cannot, however, travel to NY prior to the planned November publication of volume 1 of _Mark Twain Day by Day_ 1835-1885. Has anyone seen this document or have some idea of its contents? MTP does not have a copy of it. Or, does anyone have access to the Berg Collection there and can view it for me? Thanks. Volume 1 is now at 1175 pages; the first section through 1856 plus a few pages from 1880 and the tentative index, works cited (already updated from what will appear) are being printed this week to appear in the _Mark Twain Journal_, thanks to Tom Tenney, who doesn't want me to refer to him as "Doctor Tenney." I believe this issue of the MTJ will be 81 pages. He chose to include the index and works cited to give readers some idea of the scope of this work. If you have in your files, some documented events or information for the period through 1885, information not in the letters, standard works or financial documents at the MTP, I would appreciate your help and will cite/acknowledge you as erudite, truthful and totally American. Thanks, David H Fears Mark Twain Day By Day