Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

  1903b. “Christian Science—II.” North American Review 176 (January): 1–9.

  1903c. “Christian Science—III.” North American Review 176 (February): 173–84.

  1903d. “Mrs. Eddy in Error.” North American Review 176 (April): 505–17.

  1903e. “Why Not Abolish It?” Harper’s Weekly 47 (2 May): 732. Reprinted in Budd 1992b, 550–53.

  1903f. “A Dog’s Tale.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 108 (December): 11–19.

  1905a. King Leopold’s Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule. Boston: P.R. Warren Company. Reprinted in Budd 1992b, 661–86.

  1905b. “Concerning Copyright. An Open Letter to the Register of Copyrights.” North American Review 180 (January): 1–8. Reprinted in Budd 1992b, 627–34.

  1905c. “The Czar’s Soliloquy.” North American Review 180 (March): 321–26.

  1905d. “From My Unpublished Autobiography.” Harper’s Weekly 49 (18 March): 391. Reprinted as “Mark Twain Was Pioneer in Use of Typewriter,” Atlanta Constitution, 3 April, 6, and as “The First Writing-Machines” in SLC 1906f, 166–70.

  1905e. “As Concerns Interpreting the Deity.” MS of thirty-two leaves and TS of twenty-four leaves, written in June and typed later in the summer, CU-MARK. Published in SLC 1917, 265–74, and WIM, 109–20.

  1905f. “Christian Citizenship.” Collier’s, The National Weekly, 2 September, 17. Reprinted in Budd 1992b, 658–60.

  1906a. Eve’s Diary: Translated from the Original MS. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1906b. Mark Twain’s Library of Humor: A Little Nonsense. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1906c. Mark Twain’s Library of Humor: Men and Things. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1906d. Mark Twain’s Library of Humor: The Primrose Way. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1906e. Mark Twain’s Library of Humor: Women and Things. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1906f. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1906g. “William Dean Howells.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 113 (July): 221–25. Reprinted in Budd 1992b, 722–30.

  1906h. “A Horse’s Tale.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 113 (August–September): 327–42, 539–49.

  1906i. “Statement of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens.” Speech made on 7 December before the Senate and House Committees on Patents. In U.S. Congress 1906, 116–21.

  1906j. “Mark Twain Soliloquizes on ‘Being Good’ and Decides to Let ‘Good Enough’ Alone.” Harper’s Weekly 50 (15 December): 1790–91.

  1907a. Christian Science, with Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper and Brothers. Reprinted in WIM, 215–397.

  1907b. A Horse’s Tale. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1907–8. “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 116 (December 1907): 41–49; (January 1908): 266–76.

  1909a. “A Simplified Alphabet.” MS of fifteen leaves, CU-MARK. Published in SLC 1917, 256–64.

  1909b. Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1909c. Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1910. “The Turning Point of My Life.” Harper’s Bazar 44 (February): 118–19. Reprinted in Budd 1992b, 929–38, and WIM, 455–64.

  1916. The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1917. What Is Man? And Other Essays. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1922a. “Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain: Part II.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 144 (March): 455–60.

  1922b. “Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 145 (August): 310–15.

  1923a. Europe and Elsewhere. With an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1923b. Mark Twain’s Speeches. With an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine and an appreciation by William Dean Howells. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1928. The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. Edited by Charles Honce, with a foreword by Vincent Starrett, and a note on “A Celebrated Village Idiot” by James O’Donnell Bennett. Chicago: Pascal Covici.

  1935. Slovenly Peter (Struwwelpeter), or Happy Tales and Funny Pictures, Freely Translated by Mark Twain. From the German of Heinrich Hoffmann. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  1939. Mark Twain’s Conversation as It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. Embellished with an Illuminating Introduction, Facetious Footnotes and a Bibliography by Franklin J. Meine. Chicago: privately printed for the Mark Twain Society of Chicago.

  1961. “Ah Sin.” A Dramatic Work by Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Edited by Frederick Anderson. San Francisco: Book Club of California.

  1963. “Reflections on Religion.” Edited by Charles Neider. Hudson Review 16 (Autumn): 329–52.

  1996a. Christian Science. Foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Introduction by Garry Wills. Afterword by Hamlin Hill. The Oxford Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press.

  1996b. 1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead? Foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Introduction by Erica Jong. Afterword by Leslie A. Fiedler. The Oxford Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press.

  1996c. The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories. Foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Introduction by Walter Mosley. Afterword by Lillian S. Robinson. The Oxford Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press.

  2001. A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage. Foreword and afterword by Roy Blount, Jr. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.

  2002. “Copyright in Perpetuity.” The Green Bag, 2d ser., 6 (Autumn): 109–15.

  2004. Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race. Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  2007. Mark Twain’s Civil War. Edited by David Rachels. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

  2009a. Who Is Mark Twain? Edited, with a note on the text, by Robert H. Hirst. New York: HarperStudio.

  2009b. “Hell or San Francisco: In Which the Author Recalls the ‘Great Earthquake of 1865’ in the Wake of a Much Greater One in 1906.” California 120 (March–April): 28–29.

  2009c. “The Prince and the President: In Which the Author Recalls Meetings with Edward, Prince of Wales and Ulysses S. Grant.” California 120 (March–April): 43–46.

  2010a. Mark Twain’s Book of Animals. Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  2010b. “The Palm Readers.” Playboy 57 (December): 84–86.

  Smiles, Samuel. 1857. The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer. London: John Murray.

  Smith, Jean Edward. 2001. Grant. New York: Simon and Schuster.

  Social Register. 1902. Social Register, Summer 1902. New York: Social Register Association.

  Sondhaus, Lawrence. 2002. Navies of Europe, 1815–2002. London: Longman.

  Sotheby. 2003. The Mark Twain Collection of Nick Karanovich. Sale of 19 June. New York: Sotheby and Co.

  Spears, John R. 1908. A History of the United States Navy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

  Staver, Addie Johnstone, comp. 1938. “Marriage Records. Copy of the Original Records of Marriage by Rev. Thomas K. Beecher of Park Church, Elmira, New York, from 1854 to 1900.” Copied for Chemung Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution. Photocopy in CU-MARK.

  Stead, William T. 1895. “Character Reading by Palmistry and Otherwise.” Borderland 2 (January): 60–64.

  Stedman, Edmund Clarence, and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, comps. and eds. 1888–90. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 11 vols. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co.

  Stern, Madeleine B.

  1969. “Mark Twain Had His Head Examined.” American Literature 41 (May): 207–18.

  1971. Heads and Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers. Norman: Univers
ity of Oklahoma Press.

  Stewart, A. A., comp. 1912. The Printer’s Dictionary of Technical Terms. Boston: School of Printing, North End Union.

  Stewart, George R., Jr. 1931. Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

  Stoneley, Peter. 1992. Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Suetonius Tranquillus, C. 1876. The Lives of The Twelve Cæsars. By C. Suetonius Tranquillus; to Which Are Added, His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets. Translated by Alexander Thomson. Revised and corrected by T. Forester. Bohn’s Classical Library. London: George Bell and Sons. SLC copy in CU-MARK.

  Swiderski, Richard M. 2009. Calomel in America: Mercurial Panacea, War, Song and Ghosts. Boca Raton: BrownWalker Press.

  Tannenbaum, Samuel A. 1927. Problems in Shakspere’s Penmanship: Including a Study of the Poet’s Will. New York: Century Company, for the Modern Language Association of America.

  Teller, Charlotte. 1925. S.L.C. to C.T. New York: privately printed.

  Tennyson, Alfred. 1842. Poems. 2 vols. London: Edward Moxon.

  Terry, Ellen. 1908. The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections. New York: McClure Company.

  Thieme, Otto Charles, et al. 1993. With Grace and Favour: Victorian and Edwardian Fashion in America. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum.

  Thomas, Joseph D., and Jay Avila, eds. 2003. A Picture Postcard History of Fairhaven. New Bedford: Spinner Publications.

  Thompson, Slason. 1907. Railway Statistics of the United States of America for the Year Ending June 30, 1906. Compared with the Official Reports of 1905 and Recent Statistics of Foreign Railways. Chicago: Gunthorp-Warren Printing Company.

  Timlow, Heman R. 1875. Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn. Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company.

  Towner, Ausburn [Ishmael, pseud.]. 1892. Our County and Its People: A History of the Valley and County of Chemung from the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason and Co.

  Trevelyan, G. Otto. 1876. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

  Trombley, Laura Skandera. 2010. Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

  TS. Typescript.

  TS. 1980. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad; and Tom Sawyer, Detective. Edited by John C. Gerber, Paul Baender, and Terry Firkins. The Works of Mark Twain. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  Tuckey, John S. 1963. Mark Twain and Little Satan. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Studies.

  Turner, Arlin. 1956. George Washington Cable: A Biography. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

  Twichell, Joseph H. 1874–1916. “Personal Journal.” MS of twelve volumes, Joseph H. Twichell Collection, CtY-BR.

  TxU-Hu. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.

  UkBrH. Brighton and Hove Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hove, Sussex, England.

  UkOxU. Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.

  UkReU. University of Reading Library, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, England.

  Union League Club. 1916. The Union League Club of New York. New York: Knickerbocker Press (G. P. Putnam’s Sons).

  University Art Galleries. 1985. A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin. Durham: University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire.

  U.S. and International Marriage Records. 2011. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900 [online database]. http://ancestry.com. Accessed 4 August 2011.

  U.S. Army Center of Military History. 2011. “U.S. Army Five-Star Generals.” http://www.history.army.mil/html/faq/5star.html. Accessed 21 January 2011.

  U.S. Congress. 1906. Copyright Hearings, December 7 to 11, 1906. Arguments before the Committees on Patents of the Senate and House of Representatives, Conjointly, on the Bills S. 6330 and H.R. 19853. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

  U.S. Government Printing Office.

  1884. Exercises at the Ceremony of Unveiling the Statue of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, in Front of the Capitol, Washington, May 10, 1884…. With the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Bar Relating to the Monument to Chief Justice Marshall. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

  1906. Simplified Spelling. For the Use of Government Departments. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

  U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

  1795–1905. Passport Applications. Microfilm Serial: M1372. Photocopy in CU-MARK.

  1877–1907. Emergency Passport Applications (Passports Issued Abroad). Microfilm Serial: M1834. Photocopy in CU-MARK.

  1907–9. Fentress Land Co. et al. v. Bruno Gernt et al. Civil Case No. 967, Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee, Southeast Region Archives, Morrow, Ga.

  Varble, Rachel M. 1964. Jane Lampton Clemens: The Story of Mark Twain’s Mother. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co.

  Vining, E. P. 1887. “The Gunther Folio and Autograph.” Shakespeariana 4:154–59.

  ViU. University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

  Vogel, Dan. 2006. Mark Twain’s Jews. Jersey City, N.J.: KTAV Publishing House.

  VtMiM. Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.

  Wakeman, Edgar. 1878. The Log of an Ancient Mariner. Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman. Edited by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co.

  Wakeman, Robert P. 1900. Wakeman Genealogy. 1630–1899. Meriden, Conn.: Journal Publishing Company.

  Waltz, Robert B., and David G. Engle. 2011. “The Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World.” http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladSearch.html. Accessed 21 March 2011.

  Washington Census. 1900. Population Schedules of the Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Roll T623. Washington: District of Columbia. Photocopy in CU-MARK.

  Watson, Aaron. 1907. The Savage Club: A Medley of History, Anecdote and Reminiscence … With a Chapter by Mark Twain. London: T. Fisher Unwin.

  Watson, Thomas A. 1926. Exploring Life. The Autobiography of Thomas A. Watson. New York: D. Appleton and Co.

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  W.C.T.U.

  1913. Report of the Ninth Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. N.p.

  2011. “Early History.” http://www.wctu.org/earlyhistory.html. Accessed 17 August 2011.

  Wecter, Dixon.

  1941. “Mark Twain as Translator from the German.” American Literature 13 (November): 257–63.

  1952. Sam Clemens of Hannibal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press.

  Weidenaar, Reynold. 1995. Magic Music from the Telharmonium. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.

  Wheeler, Candace. 1918. Yesterdays in a Busy Life. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  White, Andrew Dickson. 1905. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White. 2 vols. New York: Century Company.

  White, Horatio S. 1925. Willard Fiske, Life and Correspondence: A Biographical Study. New York: Oxford University Press.

  Whitford, Noble E. 1906. History of the Canal System of the State of New York Together with Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada: Supplement to the Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1905. 2 vols. Albany: Brandow Printing Company.

  Wilbor, Elsie M., ed. 1887. Werner’s Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers. New York: Edgar S. Werner.

  Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. 1887–89. Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Co.

  Wilson, John. 1973. CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. London: Const
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  WIM. 1973. What Is Man? And Other Philosophical Writings. Edited by Paul Baender. The Works of Mark Twain. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  Winship, Michael. 2012. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin: History of the Book in the 19th-Century United States.” http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/interpret/exhibits/winship/winship.html. Accessed 14 February 2012.

  Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey [Susan Coolidge, pseud.]. 1906. Last Verses. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.

  Wuliger, Robert. 1953. “Mark Twain on King Leopold’s Soliloquy.” American Literature 25 (May): 234–37.

  WWD. 1967. Mark Twain’s Which Was the Dream? and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years. Edited by John S. Tuckey. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  Yale Alumni Directory. 1920. Alumni Directory of Yale University (Graduates and Nongraduates). Compiled by Lottie G. Bishop. New Haven: Yale University.

  Yandell, L. P. 1838. “Louisville Medical Institute.” American Medical Intelligencer 2 (2 April): 14.

  Young, John Russell. 1892. “More Than Eloquent. John Russell Young Tells of Thirty Years’ Friendship with Daniel Dougherty the Orator.” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Dispatch, 18 September, 9.

  INDEX

  Boldfaced page numbers indicate principal identifications or short biographies. All literary works are by Clemens unless otherwise noted: his major writings are listed only by title; the minor ones are listed both by title and under “Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: WORKS.” Other literary works are found only under their authors’ names. Place names are indexed only when they refer to locations SLC lived in, visited, or commented upon. Newspapers are listed by city, other periodicals by title. Bullets (•) designate people and places represented in the photograph section.

  Adams, Charles Follen, 153, 534

  Adams, Maude, 475, 564–65

  Ade, George, 152, 534

  Adelaide (clipper ship), 549

  “The Adventures of a Microbe” (“Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes”), 196, 552

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: banned by libraries, 28, 29–33, 473–76; contract and publication, 58–59, 492–93, 651; deleted passages, 273, 580; inspiration for, 332; mesmerist episode considered, 590; Mississippi River description, 477; praised, 30–31, 33, 265, 347, 475, 477, 577; praised by SLC, 355; sales and royalties, 59, 528; shooting episode, 590