Oh, gosh, Jerome, thank you for letting us know. Is there someone to whom we should address our sympathies? --susan harris Susan K. Harris Hall Professor of American Literature University of Kansas Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 ________________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jerome Loving [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: James M. Cox James M. Cox, author of MARK TWAIN AND THE FATE OF HUMOR and countless essays on Twain and other American authors died yesterday at his home in Independence, Virginia. He was 86. Jerome Loving