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Housed in the
midst of the archive is the Mark Twain Project, a major editorial and publishing
program of The Bancroft Library. Its six resident editors are at work on
a comprehensive scholarly edition of all of Mark Twain's private papers
and published works. More than thirty of an estimated seventy volumes in The
Works and Papers of Mark Twain are currently available, all published
by the University of California Press (see our list of Publications
for ordering information). These volumes already include more than half
of the literary manuscripts in the Papers, a growing body of Mark Twain's
letters (up through 1873 in complete form, longer spans in selected form),
his notebooks through 1891, collections of early fiction and journalism
through 1865, as well as critically established texts of the following
major works: Roughing It; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Prince
and the Pauper; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer,
Detective; and The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts. These meticulously
edited texts are also reprinted, with explanatory notes but without the
complete historical and textual records of the critical editions, in The
Mark Twain Library, a popular trade edition available both in cloth and
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