One of the disappointments of my life was examining the Autobiographical Dictations at the Mark Twain Papers. They show Mark Twain being very self-indulgent. I do not expect to see an edition of the so-called autobigraphy published in my lifetime, and though I expect to feel many disappointments at the end of my life, seeing that publication will not be one of them. See the account in my THE AUTHENTIC MARK TWAIN, written before Kiskis's magisterial edition. Everett Emerson