Bob, Having just finished _Who Is Mark Twain_? I must thank you for putting together such a charming and entertaining book. Judging from the scholarly care you put into such things as bracketing your own editorial interpolations, I reckon your Howells side wanted to do your work "according to tradition, with . . . times, and topics carefully studied in due sequence" ( _My Mark Twain_, chap 4) in order to present a thesis to answer the title question. But I suspect that your Mark Twain side did to your plans what Twain did to Howells's organization of _Mark Twain's Library of Humor_, i.e., rearranged liberally with the reader's pleasure in mind. I admire your creativity as well as your care. To paraphrase Howells on another occasion, I will not say, "edit forever," but "edit for as long as you like!" _Ave_ (which is Latin for "He's a bully boy with a glass eye.")