A footnote to the Ida Benfey Judd discussion: I've found documentation that she began her annual Mark Twain quotes contest in 1927. I have a list of every winner from 1927 to 1935, and the rules for entering, and some of the winning quotes (the cash prizes totaled $100 during the Great Depression). I also found a letter she wrote in 1933 on Mark Twain Association letterhead with her (and her husband's) Central Park West address and a blurb for the Mark Twain quotes contest. Her signature and closing on this letter occupies the bottom half of the letter-sheet, scrawled in enormous letters measuring one inch tall and her signature six inches long: "Joyous greetings/ Ida Benfey Judd." From this evidence (and that quote somebody posted from Lyon's diary about her kissy visit with Twain) I conclude that she was an eccentric wealthy woman running a one-woman operation using the "Mark Twain Association" name prior to the group founded by George Ade and others in 1941. Or, as Twain, might have concluded, "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person who keeps a parrot." Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 You can browse our books at: www.macdonnellrarebooks.com