Scott, A typescript of the original manuscript THE INNOCENTS ADRIFT is available from MTP. Barb On Sunday, September 27, 2020, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I came across this note in Fear's Day By Day: > > Note: Arthur L. Scott’s article, “The Innocents Adrift Edited by Mark > Twain’s Official Biographer,” PMLA, Vol. 78, No.3, (June, 1963), p.230-7 > covers in depth how Paine butchered this piece, which was initially to be a > full-length book. Paine changed the title to “Down the Rhone” and the > castrated version was published in Europe and Elsewhere, 1923. > > and read through the article. Now I'm wondering if transcripts of Twain's > original manuscripts are available. >