On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Johnny Salts wrote: > When is vol 2 due? It's often a one-liner when this question comes straight to MTP, too, despite http://www.marktwainproject.org/about_faq.shtml. I ought to update that page; late 2013 is likely. Concerning reader reception, I've observed intermittently on Twitter that readers and semi-unwilling recipients of gifts have had a mix of positive and negative responses very similar to what Kevin Mac Donnell outlines. To be clear, that's from skimming unsolicited public tweets by strangers who don't know and probably don't care that anyone can set up a persistent keyword search in a Twitter app and thus retrieve their tweets. In terms of self-selecting readers--those who write to MTP directly--many more have expressed pleasure, even approval, than disappointment; I think this means mostly that the real haters don't know MTP exists. A few readers have written generously to thank us for supplying the textual apparatus online <http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=works/MTDP10362.xml;chunk.id=ts0001;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;style=work;brand=mtp#X>. And by far the commonest response we've received directly is, "When will volumes 2 and 3 be published?" Best, Sharon -- Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ http://twitter.com/mtpo