Fabulous! Miki Pfeffer On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 3:34 PM Harris, Susan Kumin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That is a truly wonderful thing to do, Kent. A real treasure trove. I > thank you for myself, but I suspect I speak for many others as well. > —susan harris > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Sep 30, 2022, at 4:29 PM, R Kent Rasmussen < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > When I published _Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers_ in 2013, I > promised eventually to donate all my research files to the Mark Twain > Papers and Project in Berkeley. As I explained in a note at the back of the > book, the citations in the book's annotations represented only a small > fraction of the sources on which the annotations drew. Well, I have now > delivered all the book's research files to the Project. They cover not only > the 200 letters published in _Dear Mark Twain_ but also more than 300 other > letters not in the book. These materials include copies of my research > correspondence; census reports; passport applications; ship passenger > lists; newspaper and magazine articles; extracts from books, school > yearbooks, and industrial publications; etc. As you may expect, most of the > material pertains to Mark Twain's correspondents, under whose names it is > organized in more than 500 files, which contain perhaps 10,000 pages. > > Scholars interested in consulting the files should contact the Project, > which may need some integrating them into its collections. > -- Miki Pfeffer, Ph D *A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: * *Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns * (LSU Press, 2019) *Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)