After combing through McKeithan's "Traveling with the Innocents Abroad" I'm wondering about the apparently missing letters: 40, 41, 42, 49, and 50. In truth I was only examining the end notes he provides for each of his chapters, which do seem to correspond to specific individual letters (including those to the New York Tribune). These are letter numbers assigned by Twain and I suppose he could have mis-counted or discarded and not sent numbered letters. -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com