Value, of course, is defined by each individual. What is important to one or another will be a waste of resources to someone else. But what Will Bagley did not note in his post was that the Twain Project has great value to those not interested centrally in Twain studies. The project itself is a model of cooperative scholarship, bringing together some of the best scholars in their area in the world. Anyone thinking of undertaking a large scholarly project should use them as an ideal. Anyone who has worked there can never forget the experience. Their work is exemplary. Anyone who wants to see just what a letters project can and should produce need only look at Mark Twain's Letters, especially volumes 3-5. These are aesthetically and intellectually beautiful works. While the letters themselves are spectacular, the notes, commentaries, and appendices are also among the best, if not the best, that can be found in American scholarship and publishing. Finally, the plain-text editing method is a great advance over earlier methods and itself deserves far more attention than it has been given. I'd like someone to put pressure on Will Bagley's comment that "The Twain project has been the focus of research (and spending) at the Bancroft for years." No doubt that they've been a focal point (they are, after all, housed in the building), but I'd like confirmation that they are "the" focus. And if they were and are, isn't that a sign of their significance? But maybe Will is just overstating his point, as, to me, he does elsewhere in the post. Greg Zacharias Creighton University Omaha