The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 16, April 22, 2007, Article 10

THE BRASHER BULLETIN

One American Numismatic Association Governor who couldn't be accused
of not reading is our new subscriber Don Kagin, who edits the exceptional
Brasher Bulletin, the quarterly newsletter of the Society of Private and
Pioneer Numismatics (SPPN).  I've been a member of SPPN for many years,
and under Kagin's editorship the publication has gotten even better.
Each issue is filled with interesting original or reprinted articles
on the topic.  Contributors include top researchers in the field, such
as Dan Owens, Robert Chandler and Fred Holabird.  For more information
on SPPN, contact info@kagins.com.

The Fall / Winter 2006 issue includes an article by none other than
Mark Twain, a newspaper article he wrote for the San Francisco Call
on October 2, 1864. 'The Last Hitch at the Mint' describes bureaucratic
snafus that had caused workers at the Mint to miss many of their
paychecks.

[By the way, one of my many unfinished numismatic writing projects is
a paper on Twain's friend, famed American author and poet Bret Harte.
Harte worked by day in a position at the U.S. Mint in San Francisco,
and he was likely Twain's source of information for his article.
-Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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