This is a request to all fellow members of the Mark Twain Forum. For the last half year I've been building a WorldWideWeb site called "Mark Twain in His Times." It attempts to bring together the resources of the Barret Collection here at the Univ. of Virginia, the capabilities of computers and the Internet, and my own preoccupation with Mark Twain's career. It's still in progress, but already includes searchable e-texts of five major works (including Innocents Abroad, which hasn't been fully digitized before), and as much ancillary material as we've had time to find, scan and organize (including sales prospectuses, advertisements, reviews, illustrations and so on). It also includes "exhibits" on how Twain's work was marketed, on Twain on stage, and on "Twain himself." We're trying to make the site as useful as possible to students of Mark Twain at all levels. I'm asking for help with that. I'll be grateful to any of you who can take the time to look at the site and give me any kind of response. Praise is what I'm most looking for, of course, but I'll be just as interested in criticisms, suggestions, corrections and so on. There is probably an embarrassing number of errors in the site -- everything from typos to getting crucial facts wrong. All help straightening out what's already there will be gratefully received and acknowledged. I'd also really like to get your help in adding to the site. It would be great, for example, to bring together all the contemporary reviews that can be located of the Twain texts that are currently in the site, so if you have, or have any leads about, any additional contemporary magazine or newspaper reviews of Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Connecticut Yankee, Pudd'nhead Wilson, or the Vandal Abroad and Twins of Genius lecture tours, I'd be very grateful if you'd send them along. I'll explicitly acknowledge all such contributions. There are lots of other ways in which I hope to tap into the collective knowledge and enthusiasm of the Forum, so I should warn you that I'll be back in the future with follow up requests. (I've had only a little success, for example, tracking down details about Frank Mayo's dramatization of Pudd'nhead, so if anyone has information about the script of the play, the dates and places it was performed, or additional reviews from its various productions, I'd love to hear about it.) But I don't want this first request to become too long, or too daunting, so I'll stop here. The address of the site is http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton. Please check it out, and let me know what you think. My e-mail address is [log in to unmask], or you can mail me directly from the site. I can use a lot of help with this project, so I look forward to hearing from you. Steve Railton Univ. of Virginia