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70. Ibid.
71. N&J, vol. 3, p. 57.
72. N&J, vol. 3, p. 73.
73. Letter to Olivia Clemens, January 14, 1885; LLMT, p. 229.
74. Ibid.
75. Keokuk Daily Gate City, January 16, 1885; see Railton, “Mark Twain in His Times.”
76. Ibid.
77. LLMT, p. 229.
78. Susy Clemens, Papa, pp. 135–36.
79. See Perry, Grant and Twain, p. 197.
80. Ibid., pp. 199–202.
81. Susy Clemens, Papa, pp. 121–22.
82. N&J, vol. 3, p. 153.
83. N&J, vol. 3, p. 112.
84. Susy Clemens, Papa, p. 000.
85. MTA, p. 202.
86. Ibid., pp. 130–31.
87. Susy Clemens, Papa, pp. 106–7.
88. Ibid. pp. 83–84.
89. Ibid., p. 91.
90. Ibid.
91. Ibid., p. 100.
92. Ibid., p. 99.
93. MFMT, p. 26.
94. N&J, vol. 3, p. 152.
95. Ibid., p. 105.
96. Ibid., p. 105.
97. Ulysses S. Grant, The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: Two Volumes in One (New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1992).
98. Perry, Grant and Twain, p. 228.
99. Letter to New York Sun.
100. MMT, p. 29.
39: ROLL OVER, LORD BYRON
1. Susy Clemens, Papa, p. 187.
2. Howells letter, January 18, 1886, MTHL; vol. 2, p. 550.
3. Ibid.
4. Letter to Charles Webster, February 13, 1886, MTBM, p. 355.
5. N&J, vol. 3, p. 241.
6. Susy Clemens, Papa, p. 205.
7. Letter to Howells, March 19, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 552.
8. As quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 287.
9. Ibid., p. 207.
10. Letter to Howells, May 3, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 554.
11. Howells, letter, May 5, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 556.
12. Howells, letter, May 11, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 558.
13. Howells, letter, May 12, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, pp. 558–59.
14. Letter to Howells, May 13, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, pp. 559–60.
15. Ibid., p. 560.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 562.
18. Letter to Franklin G. Whitmore, July 12, 1886; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 242.
19. Susy Clemens, Papa, p. 225.
20. Keokuk Weekly Constitution, July 7, 1886; quoted in Fanning, Mark Twain and Orion Clemens, p. 203.
21. Ibid., p. 204.
22. Letter to Webster, November 17, 1886; MTLTP, p. 208.
23. N&J, vol. 3, p. 254.
24. Ibid., p. 258.
25. Letter to Howells, December 12, 1886; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 575.
26. MFMT, p. 74.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., p. 24.
29. MTA, p. 211.
30. Ibid., p. 212.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Orion Clemens, letter, November 24, 1886; MTP, quoted in Fanning, Mark Twain and Orion Clemens, p. 205.
34. Quoted in Fanning, Mark Twain and Orion Clemens, p. 205.
35. Ibid.
36. N&J, vol. 3, p. 235.
37. Ibid., p. 238.
38. Ibid., p. 239.
39. N&J, vol. 3, pp. 246–47.
40. Webster, letter, February 17, 1887; quoted in MTHL, vol. 2, p. 587.
41. MMT, p. 62.
42. Letter to Charles Webster, December 28, 1885; MTBM, p. 348.
43. Letter to Webster, August 3, 1887; MTLTP, p. 22.
44. MMT, p. 62.
45. Ibid.
46. Letter to Webster, February, 1887; quoted in MTBM, p. 376.
47. MTA, p. 255.
48. N&J, vol. 3, p. 312.
49. Ibid., p. 315.
50. Letter to Orion Clemens, September 7, 1887; MTLTP, p. 229.
51. Ibid., p. 230.
52. Thomas Kilby Smith, letter to Webster, August 9, 1887; quoted in MTBM, p. 385.
53. Ibid.
54. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, November 16, 1886; MTP, quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 225.
55. Matthew Arnold, General Grant: With a Rejoinder by Mark Twain, edited by John Y. Simon (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995), p. 13.
56. Ibid., p. 3.
57. Ibid., p. 55.
58. Ibid., p. 56.
59. Ibid., p. 57.
60. Letter to Mollie Clemens, July 24, 1887; quoted in LLMT, p. 249.
40: “I HAVE FED SO FULL ON SORROWS…”
1. Letter to Charles Webster, August 3, 1887; MTLTP, p. 222.
2. N&J, vol. 3, p. 305.
3. Ibid., p. 311.
4. Charles Webster, letter, December 29, 1887; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 374.
5. MTLTP, p. 241.
6. N&J, vol. 3, p. 374.
7. MTBM, p. 390.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p. 394.
10. C. Karen Alkalay-Gut, “Jean Webster,” www.karenalkalay-gut.com/web.html.
11. MTA, p. 28.
12. From “Knights of Labor—The New Dynasty,” paper read to the Monday Evening Club in Hartford, March 22, 1886; quoted in MTHL, vol. 2, p. 598.
13. Thought to be from a paper read to the Monday Evening Club on February 26, 1887. and later used in An American Claimant, OMT, p. 101.
14. Letter to William Dean Howells, March 31, 1888; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 597.
15. Howells, letter, April 5, 1888; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 599.
16. N&J, vol. 3, p. 414.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 383.
20. Letter to Andrew Chatto, September 17, 1888; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 394.
21.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, OMT, p. 542.
22. Ibid., pp. 554–56.
23. Ibid., p. 564.
24. Cf. Mark Twain A to Z, by Kent Rasmussen (New York: Facts on File, 1995) p. 98.
25.Connecticut Yankee, p. 160.
26. Letter to Webster, March 1, 1887; MTLTP, p. 214.
27. Cf. MTLTP, p. 252.
28. Ibid., p. 431.
29. N&J, vol. 3, p. 439.
30. Ibid., p. 441.
31. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, December 30, 1888, MTMF, pp. 262–63.
32. N&J, vol. 3, p. 498.
33. LLMT, pp. 253–54.
34. Letter to Pamela Moffett, July 15, 1886, 10893. Text is a combination of Paine typescript and MS at Vassar.
35. Letter to Howells, August 5, 1889; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 608.
36. Howells, letter, August 10, 1889; MTHL, vol. 2, pp. 609–10.
37. Letter to Howells, August 24, 1889; MTHL, vol. 2, pp. 610–11.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., September 19, 1889, p. 612.
40. Ibid., October 17, 1889, p. 614.
41. Ibid., October 27, 1889, p. 617.
42. Ibid., November 10, 1889, p. 619.
43. MMT, p. 128.
44. Ibid., p. 124.
45. “Mark Twain’s Camelot,” Spectator, April 5, 1890; in Mark Twain: The ContemporaryReviews, p. 316.
46. L. F. Austin, “Folios and Footlights,” London New Review (February 1890), in MarkTwain: The Contemporary Reviews, p. 306.
47. Letter to Charles Webster and Fred Hall, September 5, 1887; MTLTP, p. 228.
48. Franklin Whitmore, letter, August 16, 1889; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 500.
49. Letter to Howells, October 21, 1889; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 615.
50. Joseph Goodman, letter, July 26, 1890; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 481.
51. Olivia Clemens, letter, around May 2, 1890; quoted in LLMT, pp. 255–56.
52. Letter to Pamela Moffett, October 12, 1890; quoted in LLMT, p. 258.
53. Letter to Howells, November 27, 1890; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 633.
54. Letter to Fred Hall, December 27, 1890; MTLTP, p. 266.
41: “WE ARE SKIMMING ALONG LIKE PAUPERS…”
1. N&J, vol. 3, p. 606.
2. Ibid.
3. Letter to William Dean Howells, February 28, 1891; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 637.
4. Ibid.
5. Howells, letter, March 3, 1891; MTHL, vol. 2, pp. 638–39.
6. Ibid., p. 641.
7. Letter to Mary Fairbanks, May 29, 1891; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 574.
8. Letter to Orion Clemens, February 25, 1891; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 573.
9. N&J, vol. 3, p. 600.
10. Ibid., p. 601.
11. Ibid., p. 606.
12. Letter to Joe Goodman, February 22, 1891; quoted in N&J, vol. 3, p. 573.
13. N&J, vol. 3, p. 619.
14. Howells, letter, May 19, 1891; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 643–44.
15. Letter to Howells, May 20, 1891; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 645.
16. MTB, vol. 2, p. 920.
17. Letter from Olivia Clemens to Mrs. James Trumbull, May 31, 1891, 11039 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
18. N&J, vol. 3, p. 621.
19. Ibid., p. 623.
20. Ibid., p. 621.
21. MFMT, p. 87.
22. N&J, vol. 3, p. 640.
23. Ibid., p. 638.
24. Ibid., p. 642.
25. Ibid., p. 643.
26. Letter to Joe Twichell, September 1891; quoted by Paine in MTB, vol. 2, p. 928.
27. Introduction to Susy Clemens, Papa, p. 15.
28. Ibid., p. 17.
29. MFMT, p. 91.
30. Ibid., p. 92.
31. Ibid., p. 93.
32. MFMT, p. 96.
33. Quoted in MTB, vol. 2, p. 936.
34.Mark Twain’s Notebooks, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935), p. 222.
35. Samuel Clemens to Clara Clemens, January 21, 1893, CU-MARK, record number 04328.
36.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 232.
37. Letter to Fred Hall, August 10, 1892; MTLTP, pp. 313–14.
38. Letter to Fred Hall, September 4, 1892; MTLTP, p. 319.
39. Letter to Susan Crane, September 18, 1892; MTLP, vol. 2, p. 568.
40. MFMT, p. 120.
41. Quoted by Dan Beard, Tom Sawyer Abroad/Tom Sawyer, Detective, ed. John C. Gerber, et al., Mark Twain Library, UC Press, 1982, “Note on the Texts,” pp. 189–90.
42.Tom Sawyer Abroad, OMT, p. 51.
43. Ibid., p. 53.
44.The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins, OMT. p. 357.
45. Letter to Fred Hall, December 12, 1892; MTLTP, p. 328.
46.The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins, OMT. p. 109.
47. Ibid.
48. Letter to Fred Hall, February 3, 1893; MTLTP, p. 337.
49. Letter to Fred Hall, July 30, 1893; MTLTP, p. 354.
50. Ibid.
51. Letter to Fred Hall, June 2, 1893; MTLTP, p. 343.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., p. 344.
42: SAVIOR
1. Letter to Clara Clemens, date unknown, MFMT, pp. 126–27.
2. Marjorie Williams, Slate, July 15, 1998.
3. Letter to Olivia Clemens, September 17, 1893; LLMT, p. 270.
4. Letter to Clara Clemens, September 10, 1893, MTP; quoted in MTHHR, p. 10.
5. Letter to Olivia Clemens, September 17, 1893; LLMT, p. 270.
6. Ibid., p. 270.
7. See Thomas W. Lawson, Frenzied Finance, vol. 1, The Crime of Amalgamated (New York: Ridgway-Thayer Co., 1905), excerpt at www.millicentlibrary.org/lawson.htm.
8. Letter to Olivia Clemens, September 17, 1893; LLMT, p. 270.
9. Quoted in MTHHR, p. 16.
10. Letter to Olivia Clemens, December 9, 1893; quoted in MTHHR, p. 17.
11. Ibid., p. 17.
12. Ibid., p. 17.
13. MTB, vol. 2, pp. 973–74.
14. Letter to Olivia Clemens, November 10, 1893; LLMT, p. 277.
15. Letter to Susy Clemens, November 6, 1893; LLMT, p. 276.
16. Letter to Olivia Clemens, September 21, 1893; LLMT, p. 273.
17. Ibid., p. 273.
18. Letter to Olivia Clemens, January 15, 1894, MTP; quoted in MTHHR, p. 20.
19. Letter to Olivia Clemens, January 12, 1894; LLMT, p. 291.
20. Ibid., p. 291.
21. Letter to Livy Clemens, January 27–30, 1894, MTP; quoted in MTHHR, p. 20.
22. Cablegram to Olivia Clemens, February 2, 1894, MS copy in CU-MARK, E-edition 1894, #04685.
23. Letter to Olivia Clemens, April 20, 1894; LLMT, p. 299.
24. Ibid., p. 299.
25. Letter from Olivia Clemens to Susan Crane, April 22?; MTB, vol. 2, p. 986–87, op. cit.
26. Letter from Olivia Clemens to Samuel Clemens, July 31, 1894; LLMT, p. 310.
27. Letter to Henry Huttleston Rogers, December 27, 1894; MTHHR, p. 114.
28. Ibid., p. 114.
29. Letter to Samuel Clemens, July 31, 1894; LLMT, pp. 308–9.
30. Ibid., p. 309.
31. Ibid., p. 309.
32. Letter to Olivia Clemens, July 17, 1894; quoted in MTHHR, p. 58.
33. Letter to Rogers, June 16, 1894; MTHHR, p. 66.
34. “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” in How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays, OMT, p. 94.
35. Letter to Louise Brownell, undated, in Papa, pp. 23–28.
36. Letter to Rogers, October 7, 1894; MTHHR, p. 83.
37. Letter to Rogers, November 30, 1894; MTHHR, p. 100.
38. See “Whatever Happened to James Paige,” by Barbara Schmidt, www.twain quotes.com/paige.
39. Letter to Livy Clemens, February 15, 1894; MTHHR, p. 6.
40. “A Tribute to Henry H. Rogers (1902) by Samuel L. Clemens,” Appendix G, MTHHR, p. 711.
41. Lawson, Frenzied Finance, excerpt at www.millicentlibrary.org/lawson.htm.
42. The source here is Francis Wilson’s Life of Himself (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924), p. 299.
43: THUNDER -STROKE
1. Letter to Olivia Clemens, March 20, 1895; LLMT, p. 312.
2. Ibid., p. 312.
3. Ibid., p. 312.
4. Ibid., p. 312.
5. Letter to Henry Huttleston Rogers, February 3, 1895; MTHHR, p. 126.
6. Ibid., p. 126.
7. MTB, vol. 2, p. 997.
8. MTB, vol. 2, p. 998.
9. Ibid.
10. Letter from Helen Keller to Mary Mapes Dodge, March 29, 1895; quoted in LLMT, p. 314.
11. Letter to Henry Rogers, June 14, 1895; MTHHR, p. 150.
12. Letter to Henry Rogers, June 15, 1895; MTHHR, p. 152.
13. Letter to Henry Rogers, June 30, 1895; MTHHR, p. 161.
14. New York Times, July 12, 1895; quoted in MTHHR, p. 168.
15. Letter to Henry Rogers, July 14, 1895; MTHHR, p. 167.
16. Letter to William Dean Howells, September 24, 1896; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 663.
17. Letter to Henry Rogers, July 16, 1895; MTHHR, p. 171.
18.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 244.
19. MFMT, pp. 139–40.
20.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 246.
21. Ibid., p. 247.
22. Ibid., pp. 247–48.
23. Ibid., p. 248.
24. Ibid., p. 248.
25. Letter from Susy Clemens to Clara Clemens, August 10, 1895, typescript in CU-MARK, E-edition 1895, #04941.
26. Letter from Susy Clemens to Clara Clemens, September 16, 1895, typescript copy in CU-MARK, E-edition 1895, #04962.
27. MFMT, p. 141.
28. Statement given to a correspondent for the New York Times, and reported on August 17, 1895; quoted in MTHHR, p. 182.
29. Letter to Rogers, September 13–15, 1895; MTHHR, p. 187.
30. MFMT, p. 142.
31.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 250.
32. Ibid., p. 251.
33. Julius A. Dresser, “The True History of Mental Science,” lecture delivered at the Church of the Divine Unity, Boston, Mass., February 6, 1887 (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1887); republished at http://ppquimby.com/jdresser/jdresser.htm.
34. Letter to S
usy Clemens, February 7, 1896, E-edition 1896, #05018.
35. MFMT, p. 143.
36. Ibid., p. 143.
37. Adelaide South Australian Register, October 14, 1895; reprinted in Mark Twain Speaks for Himself, edited by Paul Fatout (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1978), p. 153.
38. Ibid., p. 151.
39.Following the Equator, OMT, chapter 6, p. 87.
40. Ibid., chapter 6, p. 87.
41. MFMT, pp. 145–46.
42.Following the Equator, chapter 12, p. 132.
43. Melbourne Argus, quoted in Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit, edited by Paul Fatout (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 255.
44.Following the Equator, chapter 19, p. 186.
45. Ibid., chapter 21, p. 213.
46. Ibid., chapter 27, p. 256.
47.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 268.
48. MFMT, p. 154.
49.Following the Equator, OMT, chapter 38, pp. 345–46.
50. Ibid., chapter 38, pp. 347–48.
51. Ibid., chapter 39, pp. 365–66.
52. MFMT, p. 153.
53. Ibid., p. 160.
54.Following the Equator, chapter 49, p. 468.
55. Letter to Rogers, February 17, 1896; MTHHR, p. 195.
56.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 298.
57. New York Times, October 16, 1900; quoted in Fatout, ed., Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit, p. 264.
58.Following the Equator, chapter 66, p. 657; see also chapters 66 & 67, pp. 654–85.
59.Mark Twain’s Notebook, pp. 295–96.
60. Letter to Rogers, June 22, 1896; MTHHR, p. 223.
61. Letter to Howells, August 5, 1896; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 660.
62. Letter to Olivia Clemens, August 16, 1896; LLMT, p. 317.
63. As quoted in the Introduction to Susy Clemens, Papa, pp. 44–46.
64.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 319.
65. Letter to Olivia Clemens, August 16, 1896; LLMT, p. 317.
66.Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 321; Autobiography, p. 324.
67. MTA, p. 324; also, Mark Twain’s Notebook, p. 315.
68. MFMT, p. 171.
69. MTA, p. 323.
70. Letter to Olivia Clemens, August 19, 1896; LLMT, p. 322.
71. Letter to Olivia Clemens, August 21, 1896; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 323.
72. Letter to Henry C. Robinson, September 28, 1896, author’s copy in “Mark Twain’s Notebook,” p. 318.
73. Letter from Howells to Charles Warner, September 27, 1896; quoted in MTHL, vol. 2, p. 662.
74. Letter from Howells to Samuel Clemens, September 13, 1896; MTHL, vol. 2, p. 662.