Dear Mr. Britton and other fellow Twainians, Thank you for your reply to my e-mail. I would appreciate your sending a copy of that Frontline transcript you mentioned to my e-mail address. I checked the _Mark Twain Encyclopedia_, and it did, in fact, mention Twain's interest in the Shakespeare/Bacon matter, but it only devotes a single, short paragraph to it. While mentioning Twain's writing a book, _Is Shakespeare Dead?_ (which I haven't read, and previously thought to be an essay), they did not mention Twain ever speaking or lecturing on the subject. At this point, I'm inclined to believe that the reporter I heard talking about Twain (he was a reviewer offering alternate rentals to the Disney video, _Tom & Huck_) was either mis-informed or, as Larry Marshburne suggested in a reply on Saturday the 4th, thinking of a statement Twain made in chapter 1 of _Is Shakespeare Dead?_. In any case, I'm going to look into this matter some more when I have some extra time during the summer. I will report any interesting tid-bits to the Mark Twain Forum as I come across them. Oh, and if my attention to that reporter's statement and the, at this time, inaccuracy of it, hasn't spoiled any of his credibility, he suggested renting _The Adventures of Mark Twain_ or some of the older film versions of Twain's books instead of _Tom & Huck_ (he also compared the film's version of Huck to a skateboarding teen from the Valley!). My opinion is this: Since the film, or at least its star (the kid from _Home Improvement_), served as an introduction to, and sparked an interest in, Mark Twain for my younger sister (age 11), it is worth a viewing. Still, there's no substitute for the book. Anyway, Mr. Britton, I hope you'll send me a copy of that transcript. I'm looking forward to reading it. Thank you, John