I am extremely grateful that David Fears' work is now available on- line. I have relied on his generosity to me for several years worth of material he has given to me for my Twainsgeography site. When engaged in a geographically oriented project, the location and temporal information can be very important. On Mon, 2019-01-14 at 11:34 -0500, Matthew Seybold wrote: > If you come by MarkTwainStudies.org today, you’ll notice we have a > fresh new design. > > When we launched two years ago, we relied on a webmaster with limited > coding skill who was literally colorblind (aka, me). > > As the site grew, existing materials got buried and new opportunities > eclipsed our technical capabilities. > > No longer. > > Paul Stonier Design has created a better looking and more functional > site, and will continue to consult for CMTS going forward. > > Even more exciting than the new look, however, is that you now have > access to a fully-searchable digital edition of David Fears’s MARK > TWAIN DAY BY DAY. > > As many of you know, David’s immense chronology of Samuel Clemens’s > life, published between 2008 and 2014, is a unique reference. We are > incredibly grateful to Mr. Fears for entrusting us with the fruit of > his exhaustive labors, as well as to Leslie Myrick, who converted the > print volumes to HTML (another Herculean task). > > Until now, there has been relatively limited access to the print > volumes of DAY BY DAY. We are thrilled to be able to make them > available to students, teachers, independent scholars, and all > varieties of Twainiac. We can’t wait to see what they do with this > resource. > > There will, of course, be some trouble-shooting with the new site > over the coming weeks. Please let us know if you run into any > technical difficulties. > > Happy browsing! > > - MS > > *************** > Matt Seybold > Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies > Elmira College > Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org > MattSeybold.com -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com