You know, now that I think of it I am not sure if they were brothers or a father-son team. The Ponds, who ran the North American portion of the tour, were brothers; I know I have the information on the Australian agents somewhere, and I am sure Miriam Schillingsburg's book has that, but I don't feel like running upstairs to retrieve it just now. In another few days I will know this again, because I am just now going over the copy edited manuscript of the biography, which -- if all goes well -- will be published next March. It is amazing all the stuff I knew when I was writing this book, and have since forgotten. Every time I cut a sentence out of _Inventing Mark Twain_ I worry that some information will be lost forever . . . Andy Hoffman