Just to add to Shelley's note, some Twain Forum members may not know of Joyce Carol Oates's book, Wild Nights, in which she writes fictional versions of incidents in the later lives (and versions of the deaths of) authors such as Dickinson, Hemingway etc. Her version of Twain focuses (no surprise) on the Angelfish and gives a very ungenerous version - though one that may have a certain truth in it - of his selfishness and self-protectiveness in one such relationship. My own view is that unless Oates has good biographical evidence on which her 'fiction' is based (does anyone know if she has?), then such an imaginative rendition is unjustified. But she, of course, would not agree. Pete This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.