Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians

by Twain, Mark

  Jane Lampton Clemens (82–92). Reprinted but not emended here is the text published in HH&T, 43–53, edited by Walter Blair. MS in CU-MARK.

  Villagers of 1840–3 (93–108). Reprinted and emended here are the text published in HH&T, 28–40, edited by Walter Blair, and (as part of “The Hellfire Hotchkiss Sequence”) the text published in S&B, 200–203, edited by Franklin R. Rogers. MSS in CU-MARK. Separately published in HH&T and S&B, they are here published together for the first time as Mark Twain wrote them (the pieces join at 105.21). For further explanation of the original confusion, see pages 279–80.

  Hellfire Hotchkiss (109–33). Reprinted and emended here is the text published in S&B, 175–203, edited by Franklin R. Rogers. MS in CU-MARK. The alternate passage originally following “you.’ ” (118.25) has been omitted, and the portion mistakenly included from “Villagers of 1840–3” has been moved to its proper place at the end of that selection (105.21–108.12). The editorial footnotes and the footnote superscript numbers interpolated in the S&B text have been silently omitted. Since S&B was not approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA), predecessor to the CSE, the text of this selection has been re-edited, complete textual records prepared for it, and inspected by the CSE. The record of Mark Twain’s alterations in his MS is too long to publish here, but it is available upon request from the Mark Twain Project. Except that ampersands (&) have been silently amended to “and,” the following list records all editorial emendations of the MS, the unaltered reading of which appears to the right of the bullet.

  Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy (134–213). Reprinted and emended here is the text published in HH&T, 163–242, edited by Walter Blair. MS in CU-MARK.

  Schoolhouse Hill (214–59). Reprinted and emended here is the text published in MSM 175–220, edited by William M. Gibson. MS in CU-MARK.

  Huck Finn (260–61). Reprinted and emended here is the text published in HH&T, 143–44, edited by Walter Blair. MS in CU-MARK.

  260 title Huck Finn • Doughface

  Bernard L. Stein, a former associate editor with the Mark Twain Project, was the first to suggest reprinting these several Hannibal writings together, for which he has our—and we trust the reader’s—thanks. On behalf of the CSE, Kay Seymour House inspected the printer’s copy for this reprinting, as well as the textual apparatus prepared for “Letter to William Bowen” and “Hellfire Hotchkiss” but not published here. Our thanks to her for this careful, conscientious, and always helpful scrutiny. Thanks are also due to Sam Howard, who uncovered the editorial confusion over the ending of “Villagers of 1840–3” (now corrected), and unhesitatingly shared his discovery with the editors. Special thanks are likewise due to Michael B. Frank, an associate editor with the Mark Twain Project, whose discerning and meticulous review of the printer’s copy contributed materially to the annotation. The editors are also grateful to: Coralee Paull, whose research at the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, made a number of important contributions to the Biographical Directory; Henry H. Sweets III, curator of the Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal; Roberta Hagood, also of Hannibal; Jerry P. Sampson, recorder of deeds for the Marion County Circuit Court, Palmyra, Missouri; Ralph Gregory, former curator of the Mark Twain Birthplace Shrine, Florida, Missouri, and of the Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal; and four editorial assistants in the Mark Twain Project, David J. Goodwin, Janice E. Braun, Daniel J. Widawsky, and Craig Stein. Fran Mitchell, our production coordinator at the University of California Press, and Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services, Oakland, California, were again unfailingly patient and helpful with every aspect of the technical production for this volume. Editorial costs were met jointly by the Research Materials Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

  Robert H. Hirst

  June 1988

  General Editor, Mark Twain Project

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