Autobiography of Mark Twain
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WORKS: “The Adventures of a Microbe,” 196, 552; The American Claimant, 553; “As Concerns Interpreting the Deity,” 363–70, 613–15; “At the Farm,” 557; “Blabbing Government Secrets,” 561; “Blindfold Novelette,” 548; “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” 193–95, 269, 549–51; “Chapters from My Autobiography” (North American Review), 404, 463, 469, 618, 620, 626–27, 652, 656–60; “The Chicago G.A.R. Festival,” 546; “Christian Citizenship,” 353, 609; “Christian Science” (articles), 144, 525–26, 528; Christian Science (book), 144–45, 526, 528–29, 643, 652; “The Chronicle of Young Satan,” 530, 552; “Closing Words of My Autobiography,” 656; Colonel Sellers, 467–68, 601, 633, 636; “Concerning Copyright,” 605–6; A Curious Dream, 641; “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” 592; “The Death-Disk” (“The Death-Wafer”), 106, 197–98, 510, 553; “Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy,” 515; “A Dog’s Tale,” 189, 547; “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story,” 498; “Editorial Agility,” 561; Eve’s Diary, 167–68, 540; Following the Equator, 504, 546, 651; “Forty-three Days in an Open Boat,” 641; The Gilded Age (with Warner), 53, 467, 478, 533, 558, 601, 633, 641, 650; “Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again,” 515; “Hellfire Hotchkiss,” 588; “Historical Exhibition—A No. 1 Ruse,” 561; “A Horse’s Tale,” 145, 188–90, 529–30, 547; Is Shakespeare Dead?, 518, 628; “James Hammond Trumbull,” 629; “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (“The Jumping Frog”), 46–47, 230, 484–85, 562, 650; “Josh” letters, 562, 566–67, 649; “Jul’us Caesar,” 561; “Kiditchin,” 217; “King Leopold’s Soliloquy,” 145, 529; “‘Local’ Resolves to Commit Suicide,” 561; “Luck,” 157, 343–45, 537; “Mark Twain’s Own Account,” 434–36, 640–41; Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old, 53, 542, 602, 641, 650; “A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage,” 548; “My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It],” 469, 574, 659; “My Debut as a Literary Person,” 641; “My First Literary Venture,” 561; “My Platonic Sweetheart,” 533; The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance, 530; “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger,” 146, 196–97, 530, 552; “Old Times on the Mississippi,” 489; “The Only Reliable Account of the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” 621; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 197, 353, 608–9, 651; “A Petition to the Queen of England,” 179–80, 545–46; “Pictur’ Department,” 561; “Prayer,” 545; Pudd’nhead Wilson, 543, 651; “A Record of the Small Foolishnesses of Susie & ‘Bay’ Clemens (Infants),” 222–25, 330, 557, 593; “The Refuge of the Derelicts,” 196, 198, 549, 552; “River Intelligence,” 561; “Schoolhouse Hill,” 552, 588, 589; “Scraps from My Autobiography,” 576, 659–60; “A Simplified Alphabet,” 578; “Snodgrass” letters, 231–35, 563; “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion,” 549, 551, 611–12; The Stolen White Elephant, Etc., 54, 489, 551; “Taming the Bicycle,” 575; The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, 596; “Those Extraordinary Twins,” 588; “Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes,” 196, 552; “Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy,” 545, 590; “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” 651; Tom Sawyer Abroad, 477; A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime, 489; “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It,” 542; “The Turning Point of My Life,” 565; “Villagers of 1840–3,” 626; “The War-Prayer,” 526, 651; “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?,” 83–96, 103–4, 107, 506; “‘What Ought He to Have Done?’: Mark Twain’s Opinion,” 328–29, 600–601; “Which Was It?,” 196, 552; “Why Not Abolish It?,” 647–48; “Ye Sentimental Law Student,” 562, 567. See also Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Ah Sin; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; Date 1601; The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Mark Twain’s Library of Humor; The Prince and the Pauper; Roughing It; A Tramp Abroad; What Is Man?
Clemens family amusements: arithmetic problem, 215–16; charades, 164–65, 333; croquet, 347; Olivia’s reading aloud, 218, 654; playacting English history, 333; playacting The Prince and the Pauper, 165–66, 216, 331, 540, 602; SLC’s history game, 351–52, 608; SLC’s reading aloud, 260, 273, 306, 343–44, 540; soap-bubble blowing, 258; solitaire, 331; songs and poems, 217, 293–94; storytelling, 346–47; tennis, 218; theater-going, 333, 603
•Clemens family pets: children’s responses to kitten’s death, 224; at Quarry Farm, 216–18, 247–48, 257, 556; SLC’s love of cats, 216, 224; at Upton House, 248–49, 511
NAMES: Ashes (cat), 248–49, 511; Cadichon (Kiditchin, donkey), 216–18, 556; Famine (cat), 217; Motley (kitten), 224; Old Minnie (cat), 217; Prosper (dog), 511; Rob (dog), 556; Sackcloth (two cats), 248–49, 511; Sour Mash (cat), 216–17, 247–49, 257, 556; “Stray Kit” (cat), 331
•Clemens family residences: 14 West 10th Street (N.Y.), 80, 81–82, 506; Hartford house 79, 504, 626, 654; Riverdale (now Wave Hill), 82, 99–107, 506–8, 511, 651; Stormfield (Redding, Conn.), 509, 579, 652, 656; 21 Fifth Avenue (N.Y.), 23, 32, 111, 149, 447, 645, 651; vacation houses rented, 82, 97, 101, 183, 187, 506–8, 546, 552. See also Dublin (N.H.); Florence; London
•Clemens family servants: Anna (Jean’s maid), 511; George Griffin (butler), 241, 257, 419, 567; George O’Connor (coachman), 511; Julia Koshloshky (wet nurse), 241, 567; Katherine (waitress), 511; Lilly Gillette Foote (governess), 510, 602; Margaret Sherry (nurse), 102, 104, 107, 509; Mary (cook), 511; Miss Tobin (nurse), 100, 101–2, 103, 508; Patrick McAleer (coachman), 292–93, 380, 446, 620. See also Hay, Rosina; Leary, Katy
Cleveland, Grover, 472, 508, 593
Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, 350, 608
“Closing Words of My Autobiography,” 656
Collier, Robert J., 619
Collier’s Weekly, 609
Collins, Wilkie, 45, 483,
Colonel Sellers, 467–68, 601, 633, 636. See also The Gilded Age
Colorado: corrupt legislature, 409, 410, 628; Huckleberry Finn banned by Denver library, 29, 474–75. See also Denver Post
Colt Arms Factory, 54
Columbia University, 505. See also Barnard College
“Concerning Copyright,” 605–6
Concord (Mass.) Public Library, 29, 33, 474
Confucius’s “Golden Rule,” 130, 522
Congo. See Leopold II
Congo reform associations, 8, 460–62, 529
Congregationalists, 253, 574
Congressional Record (formerly Congressional Globe), 154, 535
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: composition and publication, 77, 196, 501, 552, 651; great inventors praised, 586; reviews, 604; theme, 306–7
Cooke, John Esten, 627
Cook’s pills, 409, 627
Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey), 375–76, 617
Cooper, James Fenimore, 339, 517
Cooper, Peter, 481
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (N.Y.), 38–40, 481–82
Cope, Edgar, 440–41
Coppée, François, 45, 483
Copyright: and German law, 285; international, 283–84, 286–88, 318, 584, 585–86, 597; legislators’ ignorance, 288–90, 318–19; SLC’s argument for perpetual, 290–92, 338, 339–41, 587; SLC’s testimony for Parliament, 290–92, 338–41, 586–87
ON SLC’S BOOKS: Harpers and American Publishing Company, 143–44, 146, 528; transferred to Olivia, 159–60, 504, 654. See also titles of works
AND U.S. LEGISLATION: in 1886 283–84, 318, 584, 585–86, 597; in 1889 317–20, 596–98; in 1906, 286, 320–24, 337–42, 585, 599
Copyright Act (U.K., 1842), 586
Copyright Act (U.S., 1909), 286, 585
Corbett, James J., 12, 463
Corey, Ella J., 603
Corey, Susan (Susy), 333, 603
Cornell, Ezra, 477, 478
Cornell University: cofounders, 477; Fiske-McGraw marriage and consequent lawsuit, 33–37, 478–79; Paige typesetting machine, 80, 505
Cosmopolitan, 517, 526, 644
Cowing, George B., 459
Cowper, William, 109, 512
Cox, Samuel Sullivan (Sunset), 318–19, 501–2, 597–98
•Crane, Susan Langdon (A
unt Susy; Mrs. Theodore Crane): letters from SLC, 100, 101–3, 508, 533; letter to SLC, 174–75; and Lewis, 173, 174–75, 542; mentioned, 328, 655. See also Quarry Farm
Crane, Theodore, 542
Crapsey, Algernon Sidney, 131, 523
Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 500
Criterion (periodical), 568–69
The Critic (periodical), 259–60, 263–65, 575–78
Cromwell, Oliver, 106, 409, 553, 556, 627
Cross, Samuel, 177, 544
Cumming, Alfred, 480
Cure, Louis, 622
A Curious Dream, 641
Currier, Frank D., 598
Curtis, George William, 562
Custer, Elizabeth B., 247, 250, 500, 501, 571–72
Cutler, Albert G., 622
Cutting, Miss (university woman), 15
“The Czar’s Soliloquy,” 592
Czolgosz, Leon, 464
Daggett, Rollin, 566–67
Daguerre, Louis, 186, 547
Dake, Charles T., 532
Dake, Laura. See Wright, Laura Mary
Dana, Charles A., 419, 633. See also New York Sun
Dante, 601
D. Appleton and Company, 494, 502, 564–65, 597
Darwin, Charles, 223–24, 527, 557
Date 1601, 153–57, 535–38
David I (king of Scotland), 367, 614
Davis (mate on John J. Roe), 211–12
Davis, Fay, 18–19, 105, 466, 510
“The Death-Disk” (“The Death-Wafer”), 106, 197–98, 510, 53
Defoe, Daniel, 169, 512, 540
De Laval Steam Turbine Company, 597
Delmonico’s Restaurant (N.Y.), 607, 631
Delsarte, François, 278, 581
Denver Post, 410, 474–75
Denver (Colo.) Public Library, 29, 474–75
Depew, Chauncey M., 71, 72, 349, 387, 496–97, 623
Derby, George, 153 534
Determinism: consequences of Adam’s first act, 236–39, 240–41; of God/Nature, 127–28, 138–39, 141–43, 427–30
DeVoto, Bernard, 578, 620
Dewey, George, 558
Dibble, W. E. (Cincinnati publisher), 78, 503
Dickens, Charles, 119–20, 381, 408, 517, 521, 599, 606, 621
Dickinson, Anna, 43, 483
Dickinson, Asa Don, 29–32, 475–76
Dighton Rock (Berkley, Mass.), 364, 613
Dillon, Mr. (unidentified), 377–78, 619–20
Disability Pension Act (U.S., 1890), 616
“Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy,” 515
Doane, T. W., 523
Dodge, Bayard, 100, 103, 105, 508, 509
Dodge, Cleveland Earl, 100, 103, 105, 508, 509
Dodge, Cleveland H., 107, 508, 511
Dodge, Elizabeth, 100, 103, 105, 508, 509
Dodge, Julia, 100, 103, 105, 508, 509
•Dodge, Mary Mapes, 247, 250–53, 272, 573, 579
Dodge, William E., 107, 511
Doesticks, Q. K. Philander (Mortimer Thomson), 153, 535
“A Dog’s Tale,” 189, 547
Dolby, George, 381–82
•Dollis Hill House (London), 448–53, 646
Doniphan (Kans.) Crusader of Freedom, 575
Donworth, Grace (Jennie Allen), 191–92, 246–47, 276–77, 548, 569–70
Dooley, Martin. See Dunne, Finley Peter
“A Double-Barrelled Detective Story,” 498
Doubleday, Frank N., 506
Dougherty, Daniel (called O’Dogherty), 309, 593
Douglas, John H., 66, 495
Downey, Stephen W., 154, 535
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 74, 498
Drake, Sidney, 48, 486
Dreadnought (battleship), 525
Dublin (N.H.): artists’ colony, 553; Clemenses’ acquaintances, 548, 553, 555; Clemenses’ stay at Upton House, 46, 68, 108–9, 148, 151, 495, 511, 530, 554, 651; “Interpreting the Deity” written, 363–70; letters by SLC, 154, 169–70, 189–90; photographs of SLC, 203, 204–10, 554; talent shows for residents, 199–200, 203, 214–15, 555–56; white suit worn, 249–50
Dueling, 98, 416, 507, 630, 650
•Duneka, Frederick A.: biographical information, 527; characterized by SLC, 143–49, 530–31; Mark Twain’s Library of Humor and piracy concerns, 146–49, 152, 530–31, 534; opinion of SLC’s works, 144–46, 506; 528–30. See also Harper and Brothers
Dunker Baptists, 173–75, 543
Dunlap, Jim (James), 178, 545
“Dunlap,” use of name, 545
Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley), 152, 377, 379–80, 534, 619, 620–21, 643
Dwight, Fanny, 572
École des Beaux Arts (Paris), 509
Ecyot, 218
Eddy, Mary Baker G.: biographical information, 525, 571; Science and Health, 136, 247, 525, 602; SLC’s opinion, 132, 136, 247, 525–26
Edison, Thomas, 625–26
“Editorial Agility,” 561
Edward I (king of England), 352
Edward VII (king of England; formerly prince of Wales): anecdote about property deed, 225, 228–29, 560; on Anglo-American marriages, 415, 629–30; as Savage Club member, 436, 642; SLC’s meeting, 180–82, 546; mentioned, 559
Egypt: Rosetta stone, 363–64, 613; Simplified Spelling sketch, 266–69, 578; SLC’s proposed visit, 578; mentioned, 186, 371, 478
Eliot, Charles William (president of Harvard), 414, 629
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 65, 494–95, 599
Eliot, John, 412–13, 628–29
Elisabeth (Carmen Sylva; queen of Romania), 97–98, 507
Elizabeth I (queen of England), 154–56, 333, 537
Ellsworth, William Webster, 277, 280–81, 583
Elmira (N.Y.). See Langdon family; Quarry Farm
Elmira Gazette, 479
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 233, 339, 619
Emin Pasha, 280, 583
Emmett, Dan, 588
Empire Theatre (N.Y.), 30, 475
Employment. See Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: PET SCHEMES
Ends of the Earth Club, 225–27, 558
England. See Great Britain; London
Equitable Life Assurance Society, 493, 497
Ericson, Eric the Red, 176, 544
Ericson, Leif, 544
Erie Canal, boat design competition, 25, 472
Ernest II (duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), 599
Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), 65, 494–95, 599
Everyday Housekeeping (periodical), 541
Every Saturday (periodical), 521
Eve’s Diary, 167–68, 540
Executive Order 78 (Roosevelt), 372, 616
F., Baron (unidentified), 304–6, 591
•Fairhaven (Rogers’s mansion at): construction, 506; SLC’s visits, 82, 149, 151, 173, 235
Faxon, Ellen, 41–42, 483
Faxon, Frank, 41
Fechheimer, Morris W., 607–8
Federal Steel Company, 80, 162, 505
Fellowcraft Club, 183–87, 546
Fentress Land Company, 469
Fields, James T., 521, 633
Fields, Osgood and Company, 53. See also Osgood, James R.
Fifth Avenue Hotel (N.Y.), 255, 574
Fifth-Avenue Theatre (N.Y.), 603, 633
Financial panics: of 1857, 516; of 1873, 518; of 1893–94, 78–79, 158–59, 504
Finn, Jimmy, 590
Fish, James D., 61, 66
Fiske, Daniel Willard: biographical information, 34–35, 477, 478; Cornell University lawsuit, 35, 36–37, 479–80
Fiske, Jennie McGraw, 34–35, 478, 479
Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 547
Fitch, Thomas, 416, 417, 630
Fitzhildebrand, Robert, 368, 614–15
Fitzsimmons, Robert P., 12, 463
Fletcher, John William, 394–96, 624, 640
Florence: Clara’s public singing, 240, 243, 567; Olivia’s illness and death, 80–81, 82, 100, 107–8, 651; Villa di Quarto landlady, 625
Florentine Dictations, 80, 445–46, 503, 643
Following the Equator, 504, 546, 651
Foote, Lilly Gillette, 510, 602
Foote, Mary Hubbard, 106, 510
Fortune telling and divination: augury in ancient Rome, 364–65, 369–70; SLC’s experience with Madame Caprell (1861), 404–8, 627; SLC’s experience with clairvoyant Professor Riess (1907), 401–3, 625–26. See also Palmistry; Mental telegraphy
“Forty-three Days in an Open Boat,” 641
Foster, Stephen, 588
Fowler, Lorenzo N., 334–36, 337, 391, 603, 604
Fowler, Orson Squire, 603, 604
France: Clemenses’ stay at Aix-les-Bains, 82, 506; Huckleberry Finn news item, 27–29, 32; Huguenots assassinated, 134, 524; naval fleet and statesmanship, 134–35, 525; SLC destroys manuscripts, 197
Franklin, William Buel, 265–66, 578
Fredonia (N.Y.): home of Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, 470, 492, 610, 653; home town of Webster and Whitford, 492, 493, 503; SLC’s visit, 591
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 548
Free speech, 442
French Revolution, 227
Frohman, Charles, 19, 466
Frohman, Daniel, 19, 466
Fuller, Annie Weeks Thompson, 40–42, 482
Fuller, Frank: biographical information, 480–81; as acting governor of Utah Territory, 37–38; adopted and biological sons, 41–42, 482–83; daughters, 42, 481, 483; SLC’s lecture, 38–40, 481; SLC’s meeting, 481; steam generator company, 54–55, 490; wife’s death, 40–41
Fuller, Louis R., 41–42, 482–83
Fuller, Mary F., 481
Gabrilowitsch, Clara Clemens. See Clemens, Clara Langdon
Gabrilowitsch, Nina (SLC’s granddaughter), 655
Gabrilowitsch, Ossip (Clara’s husband), 509, 652, 655
Galaxy (periodical), 515, 561
Garfield, James A., 137, 526
Garrety, Margaret, 508, 509
General Act of Berlin (international agreement, 1885), 461
George III (king of England), 134, 352, 525
George Routledge and Sons: authorized SLC editions, 488, 641; New York agent, 641; SLC’s meeting (1872), 435–36. See also Routledge, Edmund
Gerhardt, Karl, 247, 333, 571
Germany: Clemens family activities, 225; copyright law, 284–85; Harte as consul, 119, 519, 520, 635; Harte’s Gabriel Conroy popular, 635; naval fleet, 525; SLC’s translation project, 584–85; SLC’s travels with Twichell, 181–82, 546; SLC’s works published, 316, 599; U.S. tariff negotiations, 433, 640; Wagner’s Lohengrin, 539. See also Wilhelm II