[log in to unmask] wrote: > I should know this. . . but I have seen a source that shows Twain's > careful revisions of the first page of _Huck Finn_ in his own > handwriting. It's excellent to teach revision . . . It's on page 389 of Random House's 1996 _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Comprehensive Edition_. In the Introduction and Addendum, Justin Kaplan and Vic Doyno comment on the changes. For more ideas on revision, see Doyno's 1991 _Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain's Creative Process_. Also Doyno has plans for _Beginning to Write _Huck Finn__. larry marshburne [log in to unmask]