My experience at the MTP matches Ric's, although I do have a traditional academic background. In addition, I should note that all visitors work in the small room and, of course, it is conventional that one does not use ink in archives in order to protect documents. That archives should protect themselves against theft makes sense too, given the unfortunate degree of theft (by academics) of documents from archives. Last, I really don't understand the complaint that academics have not recognized the significance of Clemens's western days. I don't understand the complaint because the scholarship on this very subject is rather extensive. Greg Zacharias Creighton University