The Mark Twain Forum's LISTSERV seems to have been down the past couple of days. Sorry for any inconvenience and delay this might have caused. An electronic text of Mark Twain's "Sociable Jimmy" is now available from the MT Forum filelist. This sketch appeared in the _New York Times_ (29 November 1874), and is the anecdote upon which Shelley Fisher Fishkin bases her claim that Twain used a real-life black person as the model for the speech of Huck Finn (_Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices_, Oxford University Press, 1993). To retrieve "Sociable Jimmy" (9,655 bytes), send a message to either [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] containing the command: GET JIMMY TEXT TWAIN-L If you want to see what other files are available from the filelist, send the command: INDEX TWAIN-L Please be careful to send these commands to the LISTSERV address above, not to the TWAIN-L address. Enjoy! Taylor Roberts University of British Columbia 0========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 16:20:55 -0800 Reply-To: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> From: Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Was Twain gay?: Elmira conference paper now available The much-publicized paper that Andy Hoffman presented in August at the Elmira conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies is now available from the Mark Twain Forum filelist by the kind permission of its author. To retrieve a copy of "A New Position: Sex and Twain Biography," send a message to either <[log in to unmask]> or <[log in to unmask]> containing the single line: GET TWAIN SEX TWAIN-L To see the complete Mark Twain Forum filelist, send the command: INDEX TWAIN-L Please be careful to send these commands to LISTSERV, not to TWAIN-L. Taylor Roberts University of British Columbia