On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Tony Powers wrote:

> Can anyone tell  me the year in which Huck Finn is set (not written)?
>
The title page states "Forty to Fifty Years Ago".  The University
of California 1985 paperback edition of _Huck Finn_ elaborates in its
endnote on p. 372: "sometime between about 1835 and 1845".  Twain had
changed the date from "forty years ago" in 1884 to agree with the sequel
_H. F. and Tom Sawyer among the Indians_.

Larry Marshburne ([log in to unmask])