Robert Hirst of the Mark Twain Project has sent a response to the Letter to the Editor of the San Francisco Examiner mentioned in my last web update (the letter called for digitizing the collection instead of continuing with traditional book publication). Harriet Smith forwarded the text of the letter to me with a request that I put it online and I have done so. If it is published in the Examiner, I will probably need to take this text offline and replace it with a link to the Examiner page. It is now available at: Mark Twain Project's Response to a Letter in the San Francisco Examiner http://www.accinet.net/~fjzwick/twain/mtp.html There are many good points made in the letter and even those familiar with the Project's work will undoubtedly find it useful. I have also added links to the Examiner's articles and other online resources at the bottom of the page. Thanks to Harriet Smith for providing the text of this letter and the response from Charles Faulhaber about the Project's impact on overall Bancroft funding that was circulated through the Forum earlier. Jim Zwick