A collection of previously unpublished Mark Twain’s penning will be published in April 2009 by HarperStudio. Many of them, such as a short by the title The Undertaker’s Tale, has been recovered from the masses of personal correspondence that Twain has left after his death in 1910.

The volume entitled Who is Mark Twain ? also includes a musing by Twain on the matter of publishing, in which he says;

the man who does most toward deciding me whether I shall publish the book or burn it, is the man who always goes to sleep. If he drops off within fifteen minutes, I burn the book; if he keeps awake three-quarters of an hour, I publish – and I publish with the greatest confidence, too.