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11.Traveling with the Innocents Abroad, pp. 309–10; letter to the Alta, written November 20, 1867, published January 8, 1868.
12.Traveling with the Innocents Abroad, pp. 314–15; letter to the Herald, written November 19, published November 20, 1867.
13. Letter to the Herald in Traveling with the Innocents Abroad, pp. 315–16.
14. Letter to the Alta, in Traveling with the Innocents Abroad, pp. 310–11.
15.The Innocents Abroad, pp. 643–44.
16. Letter to Jane Clemens and family, November 20, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 104.
17. New York Herald, November 21, 1867; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 107.
18. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, December 2, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 122–23.
19. Letter to Frank Fuller, November 24, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 111.
20. Letter to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, written December 4, published December 22, 1867; quoted in N&J, vol. 1, p. 490.
21. William M. Stewart, Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada, edited by George Rathwell Brown (New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1908), quoted in N&J, vol. 1, p. 456.
22. N&J, vol. 1, pp. 492–94.
23. Ibid., pp. 488–89.
24. Ibid., p. 491.
25. Letter to the Alta California, written January 16, published February 14, 1868; quoted at www.twainquotes.com.
26. Unpublished letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, January 20, 1868; Paine’s typed copy of the manuscript, MTP.
27. Letter to Samuel Clemens, November 21, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 120.
28. Letter to Elisha Bliss, December 2, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 119.
29. Ibid.
30. Letter to Frank Fuller, December 13, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 136.
31. Letter to Jane Clemens and family, December 10, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 129.
32. Ibid.
33. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, December 12, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 133.
34. Letter to Emily Severance, December 24, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 138.
35. “My Late Senatorial Secretaryship,” in Sketches, New and Old, OMT, p. 152.
36. Letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, January 8, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 144.
37. Brooklyn Eagle, December 24, 1867; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 142.
38. Letter to the Brooklyn Eagle, written December 30, published December 31, 1867; MTL, vol. 2, p. 141.
39. Ibid., p. 142.
40. MTA, p. 175.
41. Ibid., p. 174.
42. Ibid., p. 175.
43. Letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, January 8, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 144.
21: “A WORK HUMOROUSLY INCLINED…”
1. Letter to Mollie Clemens, February 21, 1868; Paine’s transcript in MTP. See Robert H. Hirst, “What Paine Left Out,” Bancroftiana, no. 125 (Fall 2004), p. 10.
2. Letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, January 8, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 144.
3. Letter of Elisha Bliss Jr. to Clemens, December 24, 1867; Paine’s typescript of the original letter manuscript; only partly published in MTL, vol. 2, p. 162.
4. Ibid.
5. Letter from Elisha Bliss Jr. to Clemens, January 18, 1868; Paine’s typed copy of the original, MTP.
6. Washington Evening Star, January 13, 1868, enclosed in letter to Jane Clemens and family, MTL, vol. 2, pp. 155–56.
7. Will M. Clemens [no relation], Mark Twain: His Life and Work, a Biographical Sketch, Chicago and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1894, p. 87, quoted in Hirst, “The Making of The Innocents Abroad,” p. 121.
8. Quoted in a letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, January 24, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 160.
9. Letter to the Alta, written February 1, published March 3, 1868.
10. January 24, 1868 letter, pp. 160–61.
11. Letter to William Bowen, January 25, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 167.
12. Ibid., p. 168.
13. “How ‘Innocents Abroad’ Was Written,” New York Evening Post, January 20, 1883, quoted in Hirst, “The Making of The Innocents Abroad,” p. 121.
14. Letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, February 6, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 178.
15. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, January 24, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 166.
16. Letter to Emeline Beach, January 31, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 172.
17. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, February 20, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 191.
18. Letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, January 24, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 161.
19. Quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 174, n. 1.
20. Letter to Elisha Bliss, February 4 and 6, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 176.
21. San Francisco Bulletin, April 15, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 210.
22. San Rafael Marin County Journal, April 18, 1868; California Weekly Mercury, April 19, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 210.
23. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, June 17, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 221.
24. “Mark Twain at Church,” San Francisco Morning Call, May 20, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 228.
25. Ibid.
26. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, May 1 and 5, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 212.
27. Letter to Elisha Bliss, June 23, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 232.
28. Letter to Charles Henry Webb, November 26, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 248.
29. Letter to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, January 27, 1871; MTL, vol. 4, p. 316.
30.Dramatic Chronicle, July 3, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 235.
31.Californian, July 4, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 235.
22: THE GIRL IN THE MINIATURE
1. Telegram to Elisha Bliss Jr., July 29, 1868; Paine typescript in MTP.
2. New York Tribune, August 4, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 239.
3. Letter to Frank Fuller, August 15, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 240.
4.Alta California, October 22, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 241.
5. Telegram to Charles Langdon, August 21, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 242.
6. Letter to Jane Clemens, August 24 and 25, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 243–44.
7. Harriet Lewis Paff, “What I Know About Mark Twain,” manuscript, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut, 1897; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 249, n. 4.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Letter to Olivia Langdon, September 7 and 8, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 247–48.
11. Letter to Olivia Langdon, September 21, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 250.
12. Letter to Olivia Langdon, October 4–5, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 255.
13. Letter to Olivia Langdon, October 30, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 273.
14. Ibid., p. 274.
15. Ibid., p. 271.
16. Harriet Elinor Smith and Richard Bucci, editors of MTL, vol. 2, p. xxiv.
17. Letter to Olivia Langdon, September 21, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 251.
18. Letter to Olivia Langdon; MTL, vol. 2, p. 250.
19. Letter to Frank Fuller, September 24, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 254.
20. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, October 5, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 256–57.
21. Ibid., p. 257.
22. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, October 12, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 263.
23. Letter to Olivia Langdon, October 18, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 266.
24. Ibid., p. 267.
23: AMERICAN VANDAL
1. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, October 12, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 263.
2. Letter to Olivia Langdon, October 30, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 271.
3. Ibid., p. 271.
4. Ibid., p. 272.
5. Ibid., p. 272.
6. Ibid., p. 274.
7. As described in letter from Margaret Wiley to Samuel C. Webster, November 16, 1944; MTL, vol. 2, p. 279.
8. Ibid., p. 279.
9. Ibid., p. 279.
10. “A Mystery,” Cleveland Herald, November 16, 1868, p. 2.
11. “The American Vandal Abroad,” in The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain’s Lecture Tours, by Fred W. Lorch (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1968), p. 285, corrected again
st manuscript p. 1.
12. Ibid., p. 285.
13. Ibid., p. 289, corrected against manuscript p. 27.
14.Mark Twain Speaking, p. 30, corrected against manuscript p. 30.
15. “The American Vandal Abroad,” p. 290, corrected against manuscript p. 42.
16. Ibid., p. 294.
17. Ibid., p. 296, corrected against manuscript p. 55.
18.Mark Twain Speaking, p. 35, corrected against manuscript p. 52.
19. “When Mark Twain Read…,” New York Evening Post, December 22, 1884; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 280–81.
20. Ibid., p. 281.
21. Letter to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, November 18, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 280.
22. Mary Fairbanks, Cleveland Herald, November 18, 1868; quoted in MTL vol. 2, p. 280.
23. Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 18, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 280.
24. Pittsburgh Gazette, November 20, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 283.
25. MTB, vol. 1, p. 375.
26. Elmira Advertiser, November 25, 1868; quoted in MTL, vol. 2, p. 286.
27. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, November 26 and 27, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 283–84.
28. Ibid., p. 284.
29. Ibid., p. 284.
30. Letter to Joe Twichell, November 28, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 293.
31. Ibid., p. 293.
32. MTA, p. 189.
33. Letter to Olivia Langdon, November 28, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 288–92.
34. Letter from Mrs. Langdon to Mary Fairbanks, December 1, 1868; MTL vol. 2, p. 286.
35. MTA, p. 189.
36. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 4, 1868; MTL vol. 2, p. 303.
37. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 5 and 7, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 315.
38. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 9 and 10, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 318.
39. Letter to Olivia Langdon, November 15 and 16, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 395.
40. Ibid., p. 396.
41. Letter to Jervis Langdon, December 29, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 357.
42. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 30, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 363–64.
43. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 31, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, pp. 369–70.
24: “QUITE WORTHY OF THE BEST”
1. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 2, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 4.
2. Letter to Susan Crane, March 9 and 31, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 181.
3. Letters to Olivia Langdon, January 26 and 27, 1869; March 2, 1869; February 13 and 14, 1869; January 17, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 78, 132, 95, and 45.
4. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 12, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 25–26.
5. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, January 7, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 8.
6. MTL, vol. 3, p. 9.
7. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, January 15, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 4.
8. Letter to Francis E. Bliss, January 7, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 14.
9. Letter to Olivia Lewis Langdon, February 13, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 91.
10. Letter to Jervis Langdon, December 2, 1868; MTL, vol. 2, p. 298.
11. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 20 and 21, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 52–53.
12. Ibid., p. 53.
13. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 13 and 14, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 31.
14. Iowa City Republican, January 20, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 48.
15. Ibid., p. 48.
16. Letter to Jane Clemens and family, February 5, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 84–85.
17. MTL, vol. 3, p. 57.
18. Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard, August 25, 1869; CU MARK NO. 00340.
19. Ibid.
20. MTA, p. 189, corrected against the original typed dictation of February 14, 1906, in MTP.
21. Letter to Stoddard, August 25, 1869.
22. Letter to Olivia Langdon, November 24, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 405.
23. Letter to Clemens, February 10, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 99.
24. Letter to Elisha Bliss, February 14, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 98.
25. Titusville Morning Herald, February 17, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 105.
26. Letter to Olivia Langdon, February 26, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 112.
27. MTA, p. 158.
28. Ibid., pp. 158–59.
29. Letter to Olivia Langdon, March 6, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 139.
30. See Barbara Schmidt, “A Closer Look at the Lives of True Williams and Alexander Belford,” presented at the Fourth International Conference on Mark Twain Studies, Elmira, New York, August 18, 2001; www.twainquotes.com.
31. See excerpt of Mark Twain letter to the Alta California, July 25, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 160.
32. Letter to Olivia Langdon, March 13, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 172.
33. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, March 13, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 169.
34. Letter to Elisha Bliss, March 30, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 179.
35. Letter to Elisha Bliss, April 20, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 197.
36. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, May 10, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 211.
37. Letter to Olivia Langdon, March 6, 1869 (second of two); MTL, vol. 3, p. 146.
38. Letter to Olivia Langdon, May 8, 1869 (second of two); MTL, vol. 3, p. 206.
39. Letter to Olivia Langdon, May 12, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 222.
40. Letter to Olivia Langdon, May 13, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 224.
41. Letter to Olivia Langdon, May 14, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, 228.
42. Letter to Olivia Langdon, May 24, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 252.
43. Letter to Olivia Langdon, May 12, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 221.
44. Letter to Clemens, July 12, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 286.
45. Letter to Elisha Bliss, July 22, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 284–85.
46. Letter to Clemens, July 25, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 277.
47. Earl D. Berry, “Mark Twain As a Newspaper Man,” Illustrated Buffalo Express, November 11, 1917; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 296.
48. Ibid., p. 296.
49. R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings (New York: Facts on File, 1995), p. 47.
50. “Only a Nigger,” in the Buffalo Express, August 26, 1869; at www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/onlynigger.html, edited by Jim Zwick.
51. Letter to Whitelaw Reid, August 15, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 303.
52. Letter to Elisha Bliss Jr., August 12, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 292.
53. Letter to Mary and Abel Fairbanks, August 14, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 298.
54. “Mark Twain’s Book,” New York Tribune, August 27, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 343.
55. Unless otherwise noted, excerpts of newspaper reviews are taken from Mark Twain in His Times, a Web site, written and directed by Stephen Railton, Department of English, University of Virginia; produced by the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
56. Bret Harte, Overland Monthly, January 1870; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 356.
57. Letter to Clemens, September 26, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 365–66.
58. William Dean Howells, review of The Innocents Abroad, in Atlantic Monthly, December 1869.
59. Anonymous critic in the Nation, cited by Margaret Duckett in Mark Twain and BretHarte (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964), p. 58.
60. New York Herald, August 31, 1869; quoted in MTL, vol. 3, p. 330.
61. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 14, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, pp. 423–24.
62. Letter to Pamela Moffett, November 9, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 387.
63. Letter to Olivia Langdon, December 15 and 16, 1869; MTL, vol. 3, p. 426.
64. Ibid., p. 426.
25: FAIRYLAND
1. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 20, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 32.
2. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 14, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 25.
3. Letter to Olivia Langdon, January 15, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 28.
4. Ibid., p. 28.
5. See MTL, vol. 4, pp. 42–44, for a detailed compilation of the known guests.
6.
MTBM, p. 109.
7. Ibid., p. 109.
8. Buffalo Courier, December 11, 1884; quoted in MTL, vol. 4, p. 48.
9. Joseph Twichell, “Mark Twain,” Harper’s Magazine, May 1896; quoted in Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 114.
10. MTL, vol. 4, p. 45.
11. MTBM, pp. 109–10; quoted in MTL, vol. 4, p. 46.
12. Letter to Will Bowen, February 6, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, pp. 50–51.
13. Letter to Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon, February 6, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 54.
14. Letter to Jervis Langdon, March 2 and 3, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 82.
15. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, March 22 and 24, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 95.
16. Letter to Olivia Lewis Langdon, February 20, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 75.
17. Letter to James Redpath, March 22, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 94.
18. Letter to James Redpath, May 10, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 128.
19. Letter to Francis P. Church, February 9, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 65.
20. Letter to Charles Henry Webb, November 26, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 248.
21. MTL, vol. 4, p. 101, n. 6.
22. “The Late Benjamin Franklin,” in Mark Twain’s Sketches, OMT.
23. “About Smells,” in The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919). Originally appeared in the Galaxy, vol. 9 (May 1870), pp. 721–22. Reprinted in What Is Man? And Other Philosophical Writings, edited by Paul Baender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).
24. Letter to Orion Clemens, April 21, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, pp. 114–15.
25. Letter to Jervis Langdon, May 13, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 129.
26. Letter to Orion Clemens, April 21, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 114.
27. Letter to Jervis Langdon, May 22, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 138.
28. Letter to Orion Clemens, August 1, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, pp. 177–78.
29. Written across envelope of letter to Orion Clemens, September 2, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 187.
30. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, June 25, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 157.
31. Dictation, 1885; quoted in MTL, vol. 4, p. 168.
32. Letter to Olivia Clemens, July 8, 1870; MTL, vol. 4, p. 167.
33. Resa Willis, Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him (New York: Atheneum, 1992), p. 62.