According to _Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. II_ (p. 3) in a lecture in San Francisco Twain identified Edward Jump as the artist who would illustrate his book about the Sandwich Islands -- a book that never materialized. In 1938 William Murrell wrote in _A History of American Graphic Humor_ (p. 7): "Art Young recently showed me an interesting letter he received a few years ago from a man named Hoatland, commenting on a drawing of Mark Twain by Young, and supplying some personal reminiscences of Twain in Washington in or about 1868. Hoatland roomed in a house where Twain and Jump also had rooms. The letter, besides relating an amusing story of Twain and Jump which Mr. Young may release some day, contains some items about Jump" Was the Hoatland letter concerning Twain and Jump ever published? Barb