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Thanks to the many people at writers’ workshops and other places who read and offered valuable suggestions and corrections to the entire manuscript or excerpts from it during the past six years: Maureen Baron, Patricia Perry, Richard N. Soulen, Robert Wafawanaka, Jim Meisner, Jr., Jerry Gross, Sadia Shepherd, Sidney Offit, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Andrew Blossoms, Susan Hartman, Marita Golden, David Shields, Bruce Jay Friedman, Barbara Clark, Joanne Braxton, and Charles Marsh.

Thanks to Victor Fisher, Associate Editor of the Mark Twain Project and staff of the Bancroft Library at UC-Berkeley for facilitating the week I spent scouring their resources and examining some of the Mark Twain Papers in the summer of 2006. These materials have helped to broaden my knowledge and understanding of Mark Twain.

Thanks to all of the students in the Mark Twain Seminar, and family members who read portions of the manuscript. Paula Watson, Charlotte McSwine and my entire staff have read all or portions of the manuscript.

Finally, thanks to my sons J. Corey and Cameron C. Harris and my wife Demetrius for their continued support.