Also of interest regarding this topic is the letter SLC sent home to his mother on 2? January 1864 advising her to treat the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of _Hasheesh Eater_ (1857) well if he came her way. The letter is online at: http://www.marktwainproject.org Ludlow, former editor of _Vanity Fair_ had written high praise of Mark Twain in a San Francisco newspaper. Ludlow's biographer Donald P. Dulchinos, _Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheeh Eater_ (1998), features a chapter on Twain and Ludlow titled "The Hasheeh Infant and the Washoe Giant." Barb