Folks, Shelley Fisher Fishkin has also written an article on the Autobiography. What a shrewd move to die and plan for a best-seller a hundred years later. I'll try to do the same - but I suspect I won't get the same response. Here's the URL for Shelley's article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/autobiography-of-mark-twain -volume-1/article1796491/ Thanks, Hilton Obenzinger Hilton Obenzinger, PhD Lecturer, American Studies and English Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460, Rm. 222 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2022