Kent, Congratulations on being named as the JOURNAL’s fourth Legacy Scholar. A richly deserved honor, sir! John Pascal Seton Hall Preparatory School West Orange, New Jersey > On Sep 12, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear Forum Members,=0A= > =0A= > The Fall 2015 issue of the MARK TWAIN JOURNAL will be mailed by the printer= > on September 30th. =0A= > =0A= > Its feature article by Thomas Ruys Smith, profusely illustrated, looks at d= > escriptions of the Mississippi River in the decade just before Twain took o= > ver permanent ownership of that subject in 1875. =0A= > =0A= > An essay by Kevin Mac Donnell honors R. Kent Rasmussen as the MARK TWAIN JO= > URNAL's fourth Legacy Scholar.=0A= > =0A= > Gretchen Sharlow pays tribute to the accomplishments of Mark Woodhouse duri= > ng his decades as Archivist for the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College. = > =0A= > =0A= > Five other articles take up topics ranging from Twain's Nevada years to his= > friendship with the politician J. R. Hawley to his racially ironic manuscr= > ipt WHICH WAS IT?=0A= > =0A= > In addition, the JOURNAL also briefly reviews seven recent works of Twain s= > cholarship.=0A= > =0A= > This would be a good time to print out the subscription rate form available= > at www.marktwainjournal.com and send it to your campus or local library. L= > ibraries are generally receptive to personal requests for journal subscript= > ions, and the MARK TWAIN JOURNAL rate ($30 for libraries in 2016) compares = > well with other journals that publish two issues yearly. =0A= > =0A= > You can inform your library that although JSTOR is allowed to access the en= > tire run of this journal, by agreement it does NOT offer issues published d= > uring the past two years. =0A= > =0A= > Thanks for all of your support during the period when this periodical fell = > behind its publication schedule owing to the illnesses of its former editor= > Dr. Thomas A. Tenney. =0A= > =0A= > There is still space remaining in the upcoming Spring 2016 issue. Please co= > nsider submitting well-documented biographical and historical articles as w= > ell as critical essays of general interest. =0A= > =0A= > The eclectic MARK TWAIN JOURNAL, founded in 1936, is approaching its eighti= > eth year of publication. Now affiliated with the Mark Twain Circle of Ameri= > ca, it is one of the oldest journals devoted to a single author. =0A= > =0A= > Sincerely,=0A= > Alan=0A= > Alan Gribben=0A= > Editor since 2012=0A= > =0A= > =0A= > =0A= > =0A= > =0A=