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Through 2007 Mark Twain Project Online was a joint undertaking of the Mark Twain Papers & Project, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press; it is now produced by the Mark Twain Papers in collaboration with UC Press, with the assistance of UC Berkeley's Library Systems Office. MTPO is funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Mark Twain Project, and is supported by a number of institutions and individuals.

The Mark Twain Papers & Project

The Mark Twain Papers are housed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The papers comprise not only the world's largest collection of Mark Twain's manuscripts but also letters from his family and friends, facsimiles of manuscripts in other collections, photographs, first and early editions, scholarly works on his life and times, and ephemera.

The Mark Twain Project is dedicated to the identification, verification, collection, preservation, understanding, and dissemination of the works of Mark Twain. Since 1962, the editors have been restoring Mark Twain's original texts, collecting and annotating them for comprehensive editions of all of his private papers and published works. The result: an ever-increasing set of meticulously researched, award-winning critical editions of Mark Twain's works and papers, all published by the University of California Press.

The following served as the principal editors and architects of MTPO, above and beyond their previous editorial work.

The following have contributed to the essential editorial work published in our printed volumes, on which MTPO is based.

The following are serving MTPO as its Board of Directors.

Library Systems Office / Web Publishing Group

The Web Publishing Group of the UC Berkeley Library

• helps Library staff to plan and realize digital projects
• builds tools and applications that facilitate management of digital content
• manages and supports applications that enable the creation and discovery of digital content

WPG has provided valuable infrastructural support to Mark Twain Project Online since 2009.

California Digital Library

The California Digital Library (CDL) supports the collection and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve. CDL offers the UC academic community distinctive services emphasizing stewardship, new publishing modalities, and open-access digital collections with emphasis on the history, society, and cultural treasures of UC, California, and the American West.

The Publishing Services Group of the California Digital Library is home to the University's eScholarship program—a strategic publishing initiative that promotes innovation in scholarly communication by developing and supporting low-cost distribution services and new publishing models for academic publication across the UC system and beyond.

CDL's Publishing Services Group was instrumental in the design and development of the technical infrastructure behind Mark Twain Project Online.

University of California Press

The University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. UC Press is among the six largest university presses in the United States and, of these, is the only one located in the West and associated with a public university.

For more than 35 years, the Mark Twain Project has partnered with UC Press to produce a comprehensive critical edition of Mark Twain's writings. UC Press also owns the exclusive rights to publish copyright-protected content online on Mark Twain Project Online. For information about permissions and copyrights, see Rights and Permissions.

Acknowledgments

This Web site could not have been created without the magnificently sustained support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent federal agency. NEH grants in support of the Mark Twain Project over the last six years have been matched by private gifts from a variety of sources, the most generous of which we want to thank here.

For their truly exceptional contributions to the Mark Twain Project we thank the following: The Barkley Fund; Helen Kennedy Cahill; J. Kimo Campbell; Robert Paul Corbett; Lawrence E. Crooks; Robert A. Ellsworth; Ann and David Flinn; Peter and Robin Frazier; Virginia R. Furth; Dr. and Mrs. Orville J. Golub; Ira Michael Heyman; The Hofmann Foundation; James M. Hotchkiss, Jr.; The House of Bernstein, Inc.; Don E. Kosovac; Watson M. Laetsch; Lynn B. Little; Mark Twain Foundation; Anne Melbye; Robert and Beverly Middlekauff; The Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation, Inc.; Mr. Richard H. Morrison; S. V. Nelson; Jeanne G. O.Brien; Peter K. Oppenheim; Edward H. Peterson; Renee B. Fisher Foundation, Inc.; Roger and Jeane Samuelsen; Thomas C. Schneider; Susan Severin; Benjamin Shapell; Willis and Marion Slusser; Camilla and George Smith; Bruce Smith; Randall L. Smith; Janet and Alan Stanford; Jeanne B. Ware; and Sheila M. Wishek.

For their sustaining gifts over the last five years, without which we would not have succeeded in matching the NEH grants offered to us in that period, we want to thank especially John B. Adams, Michele Aldrich, Donald L. Allari, Richard and Rita Atkinson, Jerrold J. Bagnani, Barbara Bowles, Lawrence Brackett, David A. Brown, John B. Bush, Lucy and Donald Campbell, Robert M. Clarke, Lawrence H. Cohn, Leonard Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson G. Combs, David E. Conklin, Rolleen S. Connell, Judth F. Cortese, Jeanneane H. Cunliffe, James T. Curry, Mrs. Henry Daggett, Lester E. De Wall, Jack and Mary Jane Dold, Dow Chemical, Victor A. Doyno, Carol Hart Field, Victoria and Barry Fong, William and Marianne Gagen, Donna M. Garaventa, John and Charlotte Gilmore, William L. Gonser, Robert L. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Griffin, Edward and Andrea Hager, Susan K. Harris, Betty Helmholz, Mrs. W. James Hill, Hal Holbrook, Charles A. Holloway, Elizabeth A. Hook, George J. Houle, Robert Ilko, Fred L. Karren, Linda B. Keene, Dennis and Hene Kelly, Holger Kersten, Carol L. King, G. Alan Kingston, Allan Littman, Alexander H. Lucas, John R. MacConnell, Mr. Michael Maniccia, Michael J. Marston, Beverly Wagler Matson, Beverly and Fritz Maytag, Deborah McCabe, F. Van Dorn and Carolyn U. Moller, James and Juanita Moore, Tim Muller, Sharon Niederhaus, Surl Nielsen, Terence J. O.Reilly, Axel Ovregaard, Garry I. G. Parton, Jack D. Paxton, Scott Pector, Peter T. Peterson, David Wingfield Pettus, Daniel Pinkel, Lila and Neville Rich, Justine Roberts, Mr. Leigh Robinson, James Ryan, Russ and Carolyn Ryder, Donald A. and Joanne Sandstrom, Jack M. Saroyan, Katherine B. Schwarzenbaach, Wen-Hsing and James Sha, Shell Oil Company Foundation, Inc., R. S. Sherman, Richard J. Sideman, Michael Sims, David C. Smith, M.D., Catherine R. Spieker, Charles G. and Tracy I. Stephenson, Gretchen Trupiano, Arnie Turrentine, Montague M. Upshaw, Carol J. Upshaw, Carol L. Voss, Fred T. Weiss, Ronald G. Wheatcroft, Thomas Edwin Woodhouse, Patricia Wright, Alvin Ziegler, and Peter and Midge Zischke.

Crucial to encouraging these and many other donors has been the Mark Twain Luncheon Club, conceived and founded by Robert Middlekauff, Watson M. Laetsch, and Chancellor Emeritus Ira Michael Heyman, who have together utterly transformed the Project's ability to raise funds. Together with the present and former members of the board of directors for the Club 2 Charles B. Faulhaber, Ann Flinn, Victoria F. Fong, Robin Frazier, Peter E. Hanff, Janet Stanford, Catherine and Kent Williams, Thomas Woodhouse, Alvin Ziegler, and Midge Zischke.they have by their efforts ensured that the editors of the Mark Twain Project would be able to offer their long years of experience to the production of this website. And they have persuaded many generous donors to contribute both to the operating costs and what is now being created as an endowment to support the Project until its completion. That endowment is even now being created by members of the University of California, Berkeley, Class of 1958, as their 45th- and 50th-year gifts to the University. This effort to create sustained support, unique in the history of the Project, is being led by three members of the class: Edward H. Peterson, Roger Samuelsen, and Don Kosovac. For all this generosity, material and otherwise, we are indeed very grateful.

Of equal importance to the success of this endeavor has been the institutional support received from Charles B. Faulhaber, Director of The Bancroft Library, for database conversion, and from the eScholarship division of the California Digital Library and the University of California Press for the costs of converting our printed volumes to electronic form, as well as most of the costs of building the technical infrastructure on which the site relies. We want to thank both institutions and their fearless leaders, Catherine Candee and Lynne Withey, respectively.

R.H.H.
September 2007

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