Bob, First, a personal note of thanks for the notes you passed along to me. Based on them, I developed a new passage for my seemingly never-to-be-finished book. Secondly, (I think I can say this with confidence), on behalf of all Forumers, let me say how much we appreciate and value your being amongst us. I want to express our collective gratitude for your indeispensible contributions to Twain scholarship in general, and to us in this discussion group in partiuclar. Your participation helps raise the level of "electronic scholarhip," helping make this Forum more than an intellecutal chat group. Thanks. wes britton [log in to unmask]