The plot thickens. Through the decency of the HathiTrust Library, which has given the UC Libraries emergency access to online texts, I've been able to see In digital copies of the earliest printings of this lost letter. In Cyril Clemens's *Mark Twain, the Letter-Writer *(1932), the dateline is simply "*Michigan, Dec. 1884*." When Cyril Clemens printed this letter again in the *Mark Twain Quarterly *in 1941, the dateline had grown to read: "*Muskegon, Michigan, December 4, 1884*." There are two possibilities. Either Cyril returned to the manuscript letter and transcribed it more fully than he had before, OR [a strong nudge here] he supplied "Muskegon" and "4" out of his own erratic brain. Since both "December 4" and "Muskegon," as Scott points out, make no sense, I think it's clear these details are mere invention. Later, no doubt, some well meaning person made a "correction" from 4 to 14, on the grounds that at least Clemens was *near *Muskegon on the latter date. Unluckily, they "corrected" without getting all the facts. (I think it's right to emphasize again that, for the letters of years we haven't edited yet, MTPO information isn't as refined as it will be later.) So much for Mark Twain's phantom side-excursion to Muskegon! (Rabbit hole? . . . What rabbit hole?) Ben