The Mississippi Quarterly, March 22nd, 1998
Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5: 1872-1873, edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxxv, 939 pp. $60.00.
After a few years, when all the reviews of Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5 have appeared, I plan to survey them and see how my peers and betters handled it. Not to rate them on the sternness of their standards but to get a profile of their interests and tastes. Part of that profile is, however, predetermined, I hope. Anybody with the least respect for documentary editing will have to feature the continuing meticulousness in presenting...
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