Today, Kevin Mac Donnell and I discussed the dedications Sam Clemens wrote for his books. When he mentioned that Sam’s daughter Jean was the only family member to whom Sam never dedicated a book, I immediately checked the entry on “dedications” I had written for _Critical Companion to Mark Twain (the revised edition of _Mark Twain A to Z_). I was pleased to be able to one-up Kevin by telling him my book said that Sam dedicated _Tom Sawyer Abroad_ to Jean. That didn’t sound quite right to Kevin, so we both ran to our various early editions of TSA to confirm what I had written. Result: Neither of us could find any dedication in any early copy of TSA. Oops ... that was embarrassing; maybe I should have kept my mouth shut. I then did what any scholar who finds an error in one of his books would do: I looked for someone else to blame. Happily, I found at least a partial explanation of my apparent error in the 1982 University of California “Mark Twain Library” edition of the novella, in which these words face page 1: To Jean Clemens with the affectionate admiration of her Papa Where, I wondered did that come from? It’s not in the 1980 Iowa-California omnibus edition of Tom Sawyer books, which like the later Mark Twain Library edition of TSA was edited by John C. Gerber. Gerber’s explanatory note on page 178 and Robert Hirst’s note on texts on page 193 of the latter edition provide the answer. Sam wrote the dedication for the book but didn’t get it to his publishers in time to be used. In a letter to Livy of April 16, 1894, he explained that his failure was due to both Webster’s and Chatto’s editions coming out much sooner than he had expected. He added that he had instructed Websterco’s president, Frederick Hall, “to see to it that the second edition contains it [the dedication].” Unfortunately, Websterco went bust before a second edition of TSA could be made. Sam’s instruction to Hall was then apparently forgotten until his letter to Livy was noticed around 1981, in time for the Mark Twain Library edition. My reason for posting this note is to ask if anyone has ever seen the dedication to Jean in _any_ edition of TSA published before 1982. Meanwhile, I’ll ponder the question of whether what I wrote for _Critical Companion_ is correct or incorrect. Rather than open that issue to public debate, I’ll restrict the voting to myself.