Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts: Some Questions for Textual Critics

William Meniam Gibson (A.B., Princeton University; AM. and Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of English at New York University and is Director of the Center for Editions of American Authors of the Modem Language Association. He was co-author of a Bibliography of William Dean Howells and an edition of Mark Twain-Howells Letters. The following paper was delivered at the annual meeting of the RMMLA in October 1968 at Colorado Springs. It is an abbreviation of a paper given at the Dublin meeting of the International Association of University Professors of English.