What evidence did Mr. Hoffman cite? Also, why is Clemens' sexuality a focus of so much scholarly (here I use the term advisedly) interest? I've heard rumors of an article entitled "Clemens' Clap," speculating on SLC and venereal disease; Hamlin Hill in _Mark Twain: God's Fool_ implies that Twain's relationship with some of his "Angelfish" had a darker side, a point which another author more given to sensationalism (whose name I forget, but I can try and locate the piece) pumps up to nearly slanderous terms - he falls just shy of calling Twain a child molester in his days in Bermuda; and now someone postulates that Clemens was a bisexual. Any more of this and we'll have to collect the various pieces and turn out a book on _Mark Twain: Omnisexual_. Robert Dagnall