I've been looking at the new electronic texts of _Tom Sawyer Abroad_ and _Tom Sawyer, Detective_. The title page for these e-texts says that they're from _The Writings of MT_ (1903), volume 20. I don't know how accurate these texts are (either the e-texts, or the published ones on which they were based). _TS Abroad_ was bowdlerized by a magazine editor in its original serial publication, and some of these changes survived into subsequent book editions. With this warning in mind, I know many of us are interested in learning whether Twain ever used the "Nigger Jim" epithet in his writings, and so I did some searches on these files. _TS Abroad_ is 34,155 words long, and contains 11 occurrences of the n-word in isolation. At 23,538 words, _TS, Detective_ is somewhat shorter, yet it includes 15 occurrences of the n-word. _TS Abroad_ does not contain the phrase in question. _TS, Detective_, however, contains two occurrences, although both have an uncapitalized n-word and are preceded by the adjective "old," hence probably can't be considered an example of the "Nigger Jim" epithet. The first occurrence of the phrase is in the opening line of the novel: WELL, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansaw. This appears on p. 357 of the Iowa-California edition (Gerber, John C., Paul Baender, and Terry Firkins, eds., _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer Abroad. Tom Sawyer, Detective_ [The Works of Mark Twain, vol. 4.], Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), which omits the comma in mid-sentence. The other occurrence is near the middle of the final chapter (chapter 11), when Tom is testifying in court: "Well, me and Huck went on hunting for the corpse after the others quit, and we found it. And was proud, too; but Uncle Silas he knocked us crazy by telling us HE killed the man. So we was mighty sorry we found the body, and was bound to save Uncle Silas's neck if we could; and it was going to be tough work, too, because he wouldn't let us break him out of prison the way we done with our old nigger Jim. This appears in line 2367 of the e-text, and corresponds to p. 411 of the Iowa-California edition, which also adds ", you remember" to the end of the paragraph. I wouldn't be too confident about these statistics, yet, given that the e-text and the Iowa-California edition differ even in these two randomly pulled paragraphs. Taylor Roberts University of British Columbia