On 3/22/2014 10:13 PM, Arianne wrote: > Has everyone seen this already? Thank you for that link. It's interesting to me that the writer thinks that MT"had a knack for negotiation". From reading the MTP autobiographies about some of the contracts that he signed, I would have thought that that would be about last on the list. On another topic, the Smithsonian has an article about James Redpath that you might find interesting. *http://tinyurl.com/oe2xs6z* Best regards, Tony Verhulst (a fan, not a sholar) <http://www.salon.com/2014/03/22/how_mark_twain_became_mark_twain_the_amazing_story_of_the_lectures_that_made_him_a_superstar/> [image: Zite logo] <http://zite.com/> .