When Adlai E. Stevenson was running for President in 1952, it was reported that he wrote a letter to Cyril Clemens blaming Mark Twain for the confusion surrounding the mispronunciation of his name: While my grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson, was Vice President - Mark Twain was at a luncheon where grandfather was a guest. The newspapers of the time quoted Mark Twain as follows on the pronunciation of my first name: 'Philologists sweat and lexicographers bray, But the best they can do is to call him Ad-lay. But at longshoremen's picnics, where accents are high, Fair Harvard's not present, so they call him Ad-lie.' Adlai Stevenson was Vice President 1893-1897. Does anyone know the date or occasion when Twain might made have made such a speech? Barb