Jim, I have three New York Times news articles online that mention Wark in an incidental sort of way. There are online at: http://www.tarleton.edu/~schmidt/19080614.html This is an interview Clara gave on June 14, 1908 regarding her father. http://www.tarleton.edu/~schmidt/19080919.html This is a news story regarding the burglary at Stormfield. I get the impression that Wark may have been staying there the night the villa was burglarized. http://www.tarleton.edu/~schmidt/19090804.html Wark is mentioned in this story by Ralph Ashcroft in a derogatory manner as a drain on Twain's finances. Barb