Dear Friends- I attended the New York Library Association Annual conference in Niagara Falls in November of 1993. I an quoting from the Luncheon Keepsake brochure: The Complete Manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Reunited at Last. The speakers were William H. Loos, Curator, Rare Book Room, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Victor A. Doyno, Prof. of English Lit, at SUNY at Buffalo Roland R. Benzow, Attorney and Former Chairman of the Library's Board of Trustees The Background On recieving a letter requesting a manusxript for the Young Men's Association Library of Buffalo, NY, from James Fraser Gluck, a young attorney and a curator of the library, Samuel L. Clemens of Hartford, generously offered to send the manuscript of his recently published novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Clemens had himself once been a dues-paying member of the YMA when he lived in Buffalo (1869-71), a fact apparently not known to Mr. Gluck. Mr. Clemens, however, had difficulties in finding all of the various parts of the manuscript. the problem may have been due to the fact that for more than seven years he labored, off-and-on, over text of what is today regarded as his greatest novel. It is now believed that Mr. Clemens sent the manuscript to the YMA Library in at least three sections between November 1885 and July of 1887: The first section arrived in November 1885: Title page sketch, chapters 12 1/2-14, chapters 22-30, Chapters 38-43 (Last chapter is 43). Gluck had these 487 leaves quickly bound. The second section arrived probably in 1886, but no documentation has been found as to the precise date.: Chapters 31-37. Never bound. 209 leaves. The third group arrived in July of 1887: Mark Twain's "Notice", Chapters 1-12 1/2, chapters 15-21. These have also never been bound. 665 leaves. Total leaves 1361. In his letter of acknowledgement to Mr. Clemens, Mr. Gluck indicated that this section would be bound and placed on public exhibition. Note: Chapter 16 the "Raftsmen's Episode," first published in Life on the Mississippi (1883), but not used in the novel. Long believed to be irretrievably lost or destroyed, these last 665 leaves were found in a Hollywood attic in the fall of 1990 by one of Mr. Gluck's Granddaaughters. After many months of litigation, an agreement was reached bu the Public Library, the Gluck family and the Mark Twain Foundation Trust on the fate of the newly discovered leaves. The 2 halves were reunited in Buffalo on July 28, 1992, one hundred and five years after the last time they were together. The above text was written by William H. Loos. It sounds to me like the litigation was over and the decision made back then. Has something new happened? Mary Lou Caskey Mid-York Library System Utica, NY