My apologies to any Mark Twain Forum subscribers who don't find my personal correspondence with Everett Emerson particularly entertaining--although it's, of course, hard for me to imagine that anyone wouldn't. I obviously sent my reply without taking the trouble to look at his message's origin. On the other hand, if you didn't know about the award to Lou Budd, you have now received a (somewhat cryptic) notification of it. And as a bonus, you have a small but undeniably titillating preview of the April-June Mark Twain Circular. --Jim Leonard