Dear Fellow Twainians, I am interested in following up on the relatively well-known references to Frederick Douglass (Howells letter to SLC, SLC to Livy, SLC's letter to Garfield endorsing Douglass for federal job) in Mark Twain correspondence and/or documents. I know they supposedly met through the Langdon family connection, but little else (documentary) seems to have surfaced. Prof. Lucinda MacKethan at NC State U did publish a paper (circa 1986) linking the two, in part through text material in "Huckleberry Finn" and Douglass's autobiographies. Replies would be greatly appreciated, especially if there could be some response between 4 and 5 (EST) PM today. I will be demonstrating some uses of the Internet for my departmental colleagues, and an almost "real-time" message would highlight the demonstration. By the way, this is not just a scavenger-hunt request. I really want to pursue the connection (if any) between FD and SLC, and I have consulted the Union Serial List of Twain correspondence, which yielded nothing more than I already had. Joe Alvarez