On May 16th, the _New York Times_ ran a feature article on the _Huckleberry Finn_ manuscript. According to the article's author, Deirdre Carmody, the _New Yorker_ will publish excerpts from the manuscript in the issue that "comes out on June 19" (it is not clear to me whether that is the issue's release date or its cover date). The article goes on to discuss the content of the long-missing manuscript and the history of its disappearance. The article also discusses the still-raging battle over control of the literary content of the manuscript. Random House is apparently trying to get control, so it can release its own new _HF_ edition. The distressing thing, to me, is the possibility that the Mark Twain Project may be left out of the equation. It is a pity that the publishing world apparently does not recognize the value of keeping control of corrected editions of Mark Twain works in the hands of the only people in the world qualified to create them--viz., the Mark Twain Project. I would like to see the MTP issue a new edition, and then let Random House license it for its own Modern Library edition, or whatever.