I came across this story via my "Mark Twain House" Google alert. It's from the Wembley & Kingsbury Times, a local newspaper in Britain, about a delay in the demolition of Dollis Hill House in London. I know Pete Messent has been deeply concerned with the house's fate and has written about this on the Forum. This is the house where Clemens lived in 1900, and said he had "never seen any place that was so satisfactorily situated, with its noble trees and stretch of country, and everything that went to make life delightful, and all within a biscuit's throw of the metropolis of the world." Here's the story: http://tinyurl.com/yjhjgdk If anyone wants to know more or help, take a look at the Dollis Hill Trust site: http://www.dollishillhouse.org.uk/ Steve Courtney