I hadn't heard of the Neider book, but the lists sound like they would be a useful resource. Oddly enough, I was about to go back and revisit The Gilded Age. So, if you happen upon the complete lists, I'd love to have a copy of them. I found Google books has snippet views from the book you seek: http://books.google.com/books?id=7lFaAAAAMAAJ&q=Neider+colonel+sellers&dq=Neider+colonel+sellers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Bd3wTs3RBsqSiQKw0ei4Dg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA You can search it, and it returns bits and pieces. It might be tedious, but since you have a better sense of what you're looking for than I do, you can probably piece it together by searching for various key phrases from the lists. That said, I'm sure someone else on the list will provide the answer in a minute or less. Michael MacBride Minnesota State University, Mankato On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sometime back around 1960, Charles Neider did a book called The = > Adventures of Colonel Sellers, which purported to be just the parts of = > The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain. In the introduction, he quoted a = > couple of letters in which Twain listed which chapters (or parts of = > chapters) were his. The last time I read The Gilded Age, about 25 years = > ago, I copied down those two lists (which didn=E2=80=99t agree 100 = > percent, but close enough) and kept them handy, so when I read a certain = > section that involved Sellers but didn=E2=80=99t sound quite Twainish I = > could check and see whether it was or not. > > I=E2=80=99m reading The Gilded Age again right now, and just today I = > went to the university library to recopy those lists =E2=80=93 but the = > Neider book isn=E2=80=99t there any more. So my question is, does = > anybody have one or both of those lists handy? > > -- Bob G. >