Donna Campbell writes that she found the epithet "Nigger Jim" in a review of _Puddn'head Wilson_ from _The Booklover's Magazine_, February, 1904. This predates Paine's use of "Nigger Jim" in his _Biography_. I still wonder if "Nigger Jim"--that exact phrase--appears in any of Twain's works. Oh, for _Huckleberry Finn_ on CD-ROM, so I could have my computer look for it in a second... Robert Dagnall