You might take a look at Branch's *Clemens of the Call*. He reprints many of the articles Twain wrote...I don't recall if the collection includes anything on O"Byrne. Best of luck. Jan McIntire-Strasburg On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > In a letter to the Territorial Enterprise dated Feb. 5, 1868 > and printed on March 1, 1868 Twain writes a very colorful column > about meeting on the street of Broadway in New York a picturesque > character/con artist/journalist/Fenian named Felix O'Byrne -- > someone he had known from his days in San Francisco. According to > Twain, Felix "said he had always remembered me for saying a merciful > word in print for him when he was being sorely hunted by the press of > San Francisco." > > Does the earlier Twain writing related to Felix O'Byrne survive > in any collection of his San Francisco writing? > > Barb >