There's no question in my mind that this property should come under the financial umbrella and administrations of the National Park Service as a National Historic Site. We have in Ridgefield, Connecticut, just 10 miles from the library in Redding that Twain founded in 1908 and only 50 miles from his Hartford home, the home and studio of J. Alden Weir, a major American painting. That site has been under the protection and guidance of NPS for a few years now, having been given to the nation by the former owners, Doris and Sperry Andrews. The present administration at Hartford might be reluctant to give up the property and its management to the Federal government but it seems a certain way to protect and preserve it for posterity. There is, of course, no question that Twain's important to American life and literature qualifies a major site in his history to become a national treasure. Bob Morton, Vice-President, Board of Trustees, The Mark Twain Library Association, Redding, CT