Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

  “Interpreting the Deity,” 363–70, 613–15

  Interstate Commerce Commission, 612

  Inventions and patents: all born of ideas, 291–92, 339–40; daguerreotype, 186, 547; Kaolatype, 489–90, 493; lawyer for infringements, 592; Orion’s, 25, 472; Paige typesetting machine, 80, 158–60, 505, 537, 539, 651; self-pasting scrapbook (SLC), 55, 490; steam generator, 54–55, 490; steam-powered pulley, 55, 490; Telharmonium, 447, 645; typewriter, 445–47, 643–45. See also Telephone

  Ireland, William-Henry, 247, 570–71

  Irving, Henry, 19, 166, 467, 540

  Irving, Washington, 250, 339, 500, 573

  Is Shakespeare Dead?, 518, 628

  Italy. See Florence; Rome

  Jackass Hill (or Gulch, Calif.): billiard playing, 384–85; Harte’s stay, 118, 517–18; SLC’s stay, 422–23, 468, 514, 621, 636, 650

  Jackson, Andrew, 9

  Jacobs, William Wymark, 182, 546

  James, Henry, 527

  James, William, 112–13, 513, 513–14

  James I (king of England), 352

  “James Hammond Trumbull,” 629

  “Jane Lampton Clemens,” 610, 653

  Janeway, Edward Gamaliel, 101, 508

  Japan: Date 1601 privately printed, 155–56; war with Russia (1904–5), 369–70, 525, 615

  Jayhawkers, 256, 574–75

  Jefferson, Joseph, 76, 499–500, 557–58

  Jeffries, James J., 12, 463

  Jerome, Jerome K., 553

  Jerome, William T., 647

  Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland), 350, 608

  Jews: attitudes toward, 69, 350, 496, 607–8; as “chosen,” 129, 136; Howells and, 349–50, 607; orphan homes, 350, 608; Russian pogroms, 132–34, 524; Webster’s Jewish ancestry suggested, 69, 496

  “Jim and the Strainin’ Rag” (recitation), 346–47

  “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” 46–47, 230, 484–85, 562, 650

  Joan of Arc: in others’ writing, 564, 566; in SLC’s writing, 197, 353, 608–9, 651; mentioned, 28

  John A. Gray and Green (printer), 485, 487

  John J. Roe (steamboat), 150–51, 211, 531–32

  John Marshall Monument Fund, 308–9, 592–93

  Johnson, Burges, 530

  Johnson, Frank Minitree, 564

  Johnson, Robert Underwood, 317–18, 319, 597, 598

  Johnson, Samuel, 642

  Jolly, Sobieski (Beck), 150, 532

  Jones, John P., 55–56, 490–91

  Jonson, Ben, 155

  Jordan, David Starr, 392, 624

  Jordan, Elizabeth, 526, 547–48

  “Josh” letters, 562, 566–67, 649

  Josie (housemaid), 542

  Judaism. See Jews

  Juggernaut Club, 28–29, 474

  “Jul’us Caesar,” 561

  “The Jumping Frog.” See “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog”; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

  Jung, Carl, 510

  Kaiser. See Wilhelm II

  Kanawha (Rogers’s steam yacht): Bahamas trip, 455, 648; Clemenses’ travel aboard, 82, 506; Rogers’s character aboard, 161; SLC’s living aboard, 149; and “spontaneous oratory” scheme, 183, 187–88

  Kansas City Star, 414, 629

  Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 255–56, 574–75

  Kaolatype Engraving Company, 489–90, 493

  Katherine (waitress) 511

  Katonah (N.Y.), 579, 656

  Keene, Laura, 13, 464

  Keller, Helen: cowboy’s letter to, 413–15, 629; Lyon’s description, 617–18; raising support for, 280, 582; SLC’s dinner with, 374–76; SLC’s meeting, 279, 581

  Kellgren, Jonas, 513, 646, 656

  Kennin, Frank Nicholls, 618–19

  Keokuk (Iowa): Clemenses’ visit 356–58; mother’s home, 22, 25, 237–38; 469, 470, 591, 653; Orion’s chicken farm, 22–23, 25, 471–72; SLC’s home, 237, 649; SLC’s 1885 visit, 591; mentioned, 27

  Keokuk Gate City, 22, 470

  Keokuk Post, 562, 563

  Kerr, Orpheus C. (Robert Henry Newell), 153, 535

  “Kiditchin,” 217

  “King Leopold’s Soliloquy,” 145, 529. See also Leopold II

  Kinsmen (club), 573

  Kipling, Rudyard: biographical information, 544; in Ends of the Earth Club, 558; visit to SLC and America, 175, 176–77, 544; mentioned, 274; WORKS: The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, 177; Kim, 177; Plain Tales from the Hills, 177; “South Africa,” 543

  Kirkham, Emily, 359, 360, 611

  Kirkham, Mary Ann, 359, 360, 611

  Kirkham, Samuel, 360, 611

  Kittredge, Alfred B., 598

  Knaufft, Eliza C. T. Harte (Mrs. Frederick Knaufft; Bret’s sister), 420, 634

  Knaufft, Frederick, 634

  Knight, Elizabeth Owen, 477

  Kooneman, Margaret, 178, 545

  Koshloshky, Julia (wet nurse), 241, 567

  Labouchere, Henry du Pré, 228, 559

  Lacey (steamboat), 561–62

  La Cossitt, Henry, 589

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 474, 541, 543, 570, 644

  Laffan, William Mackay, 77, 502

  Lakeside Monthly, 119, 120, 518–19

  Lampton, Benjamin (SLC’s mother’s father), 627

  Lampton, Jane. See Clemens, Jane Lampton

  Lampton, William (SLC’s mother’s grandfather), 627

  Lancaster (ship), 325

  Landon, Melville D. (Eli Perkins), 153, 534

  Lang, Andrew, 347–48, 606–7

  Langdon, Charles Jervis (Olivia’s brother), 64, 239, 377, 494, 619–20

  Langdon, Ida B. Clark (Charles’s wife), 542–43

  Langdon, Jervis (little Jervis), 542

  Langdon, Jervis (Olivia’s father), 377–78, 541, 619, 650, 654

  Langdon, Julia, 542–43

  Langdon, Olivia Lewis (Olivia’s mother), 176, 542, 609, 654

  Langdon, Olivia Louise. See Clemens, Olivia Louise Langdon

  Langham Hotel (London), 334, 436

  Larchmont disaster (1907), 436–37, 441–43, 642–43

  Larkin, John, 149, 469, 531

  Latta, M. C., 12, 463

  Launcelot, 218

  Lauterbach, Edward, 149, 531

  Lavedan, Henri, 466

  Lawrence, Joe, 118–19

  Lawton, Mary, 18–19, 466–67

  Layton (mesmerist), 589

  •Leary, Katy (housekeeper): and Clara’s début, 243; examines Fifth Avenue house, 23; and Jean’s illness, 100, 102, 105, 107, 353–55; length of service, 471; memoir, 466; at Olivia’s death, 108

  Leavenworth, Mark, 150, 532

  Leavenworth, Zebulon, 150–51, 532

  Lee, Henry S., 435–36, 642

  Leonard (doctor), 99

  Leopold II (king of Belgium): crimes, 8, 134, 141, 145, 307, 393, 460–62, 529; SLC’s article on, 529; and Stanley’s exploration of Congo, 583

  Leschetizky, Theodor, 509, 655

  Leslie, Dora (Eda O. Lyde), 224, 557–58

  Leslie, Elsie (Elsie Leslie Lyde), 224, 557–58

  Leslie, Mrs. (Evelyn Lyde), 224, 557–58

  Lester, George B., 55–56, 490–91

  Letters from SLC: destroyed after Laura Wright’s death, 533; sold at auction, 10, 12–13, 462; typewritten, 446, 644

  TO FAMILY MEMBERS: Clara, 506, 547; Jane Lampton Clemens, 566, 627, 633; Jean, 645; Mollie (Orion’s wife), 473; Olivia, 470–71, 538, 548, 556, 579, 602; Orion, 21, 23, 404–9, 468, 471, 473, 499, 505, 566, 627; Susan Crane, 100, 101–3, 508, 533

  TO OTHER PEOPLE: Maude Adams, 564–65; Thomas S. Barbour, 461–62; Robert Barr, 553; Lillian Robinson Beardsley, 189–90; George Bentley, 633; Elisha Bliss, 486–87, 641; Frank Bliss, 489; Edward Bok, 446, 644; John Brown, 551–52; Joseph Cannon, 598; Andrew Carnegie, 172, 541; Chicago Republican editor, 549, 550; Denver Post editor, 474–75; Asa Don Dickinson, 30, 476; Charles Frohman, 19, 466; Joel Chandler Harris, 577; George Harvey, 609; Calvin Higbie, 169–70; Oliver Wendell Holmes, 577; William Dean Howells, 15
1–52, 495, 501, 515, 519, 520, 522, 548, 586, 608, 631–34; William Dean and Elinor Howells, 542–43; Eleanor Hutton, 582; Laurence Hutton, 508; Rudolf Lindau, 594–95; Thomas Nast, 10; Charles Orr, 154–55; Henry Huttleston Rogers, 567; Mary Rogers, 572, 578; Upton Sinclair, 515; Otis Skinner, 466–67; Thorvald Solberg (register of copyrights), 605–6; Anne W. Stockbridge, 569–70; Frank Stockton, 576; Bessie Stone, 355–56, 609; Charlotte Teller, 564; Ellen Terry, 19; Joseph Twichell, 103–7, 155, 498; Victoria (queen of England), 179–80, 545–46; Lord Wolseley, 537–38; Frederick Whyte, 334, 603; Charles E. S. Wood, 607–8

  Letters to SLC: about Christian Science, 144–45; about Christian Union article, 329, 600–601; Lyon asked to locate for autobiography, 508; opposing ban on Huckleberry Finn, 29–32, 33; SLC’s burden of correspondence, 81–82

  FROM FAMILY MEMBERS: Clara, 152; Olivia, 556; Orion, 472, 499; Susan Crane, 174–75

  FROM OTHER PEOPLE: Henry Mills Alden, 231; Lillian Robinson Beardsley, 189; B. Butler Boyle, 199, 213; George W. Cable, 334; Andrew Carnegie, 541; Susy Crane, 174–75; Asa Don Dickinson, 29–30, 31, 32; Morris Fechheimer, 608; Minnie Maddern Fiske, 547; Thomas Fitch, 415, 630; Bret Harte, 634, 635; George Harvey, 551; Calvin Higbie, 182–83; William Dean Howells, 501; Charles Orr, 153; Hélène Elisabeth Picard, 28, 29, 473–74; Henry Huttleston Rogers, 582; “John Senior,” 600–601; Anne W. Stockbridge, 246; Frank R. Stockton, 259; Bessie Stone, 355–56, 609; J. Hammond Trumbull, 467–68; Joseph Twichell, 510, 551; Laura Wright, 151, 211, 553, 554

  •Lewis, John T.: biographical information, 541–42; death, 173–75; pension, 172–73, 175; rescue of women, 542–43; on Sour Mash (cat), 216

  Library of Humor. See Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

  Library of Wit and Humor by Mark Twain and Others (anthology), 152–53, 534

  Lies and lying: Carlyle quoted, 304, 591; Clara’s lies to Olivia, 99–103, 104–7, 509; SLC’s mesmerism deception, 298–302; Susy’s lies in childhood, 223–24; truth perceived as, 302–4, 381–82. See also “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?”

  Life on the Mississippi: contract, 53; German porter’s appreciation, 315–16; Lewis’s rescue of women recounted, 543; origin of “Mark Twain” pseudonym, 230, 356, 561; profane ostler anecdote, 380, 620; publication, 52, 53–54, 489, 492, 651; typewritten copy, 645; Wilhelm II’s appreciation, 310, 314, 431, 594

  Lincoln, Abraham: assassination, 13, 464; Gettysburg Address compared to Malory, 218; letter and memorabilia sold at auction, 13; political appointments, 458, 480, 653; political supporters and tribute, 573, 593, 619

  Lindau, Rudolf (called Smith): biographical information, 536; copy of Date 1601 promised, 157; letter from SLC, 594–95; vacation (or resignation) request, 311–12, 594–95; work schedule, 310–11

  Lindsey, Ben B., 628

  Literature: amateur offerings from friends, 162–63, 168–71; children’s writing, 166 (see also Clemens, Olivia Susan, biography of SLC); detective stories, 74, 498; journalism vs., 230, 562; most prodigious asset of a country, 323–24; popular recitations by others, 556; right form for a story, 197–98; writing from the heart, 127, 183, 188–90, 413–15. See also Autobiography (SLC)

  Littleton, Martin W., 547

  Livingstone, David, 583

  Lloyd’s News, 439–40

  “‘Local’ Resolves to Commit Suicide,” 561

  Locke, David Ross (Petroleum V. Nasby), 153, 445–46, 643–44

  Loeb, William, Jr., 460

  Logan, James O’Neill, 44–45

  Logan, John Alexander, 70, 496

  Logan, Olive, 43–46, 483

  London: American Society’s Independence Day dinner, 157, 537; billiard playing, 381–82; Clemenses’ stay in Tedworth Square (1896–97), 10–11, 81; Clemenses’ stay at Dollis Hill House (1900), 81", 448–53, 646; house addresses puzzling, 452–53; merchants, 447–48, 449–52, 645–46; phrenology readings, 334, 335–36, 391, 604; rumor of SLC’s death, 11; Simplified Spelling rejected by press, 580; SLC’s first visit (1872), 434–36, 641; SLC’s meeting of Campbell-Bannerman, 227–28; SLC’s meeting of Wolseley, 157, 345; SLC’s testimony before Parliament, 290–92, 338–41, 587; Terry’s jubilee celebrations, 19, 467. See also Chatto and Windus; George Routledge and Sons

  London Evening Standard, 580

  London Globe, 580

  London Idler (monthly), 553

  London Leader, 580

  London Pall Mall Gazette, 580

  London Standard, 525, 543

  London Tribune, 227, 559

  London Westminster Gazette, 167, 540

  London World, 177

  Long, John Davis, 319, 598

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 563, 599

  Longman’s Magazine, 606

  Longworth, Nicholas, 21

  Lord’s Prayer, 175, 267, 269

  Lotos Club (N.Y.), 436, 582, 642

  “Lou Dillon” (mare), 415, 630

  Louisville Courier-Journal, 616 616

  “Love” (William Wilfred Campbell), 376–77, 618, 619

  Low, James, 3, 458

  Low, Seth, 640

  Lowell, James Russell: biographical information, 554; at copyright hearings, 283–84, 318, 584, 597; fiftieth birthday, 265–66, 578; and Monk-Greeley anecdote, 202–3, 554; mentioned, 233, 563

  •Lower Saranac Lake (N.Y.), 82, 506

  “Luck,” 157, 343–45, 537

  Luckstone, Isidore, 243–44, 568

  Lyceum Theatre (London), 467

  Lyceum Theatre (N.Y.), 581

  Lyde, Eda O. (Dora), 224, 557

  Lyde, Elsie Leslie, 224, 557–58

  Lyde, Evelyn (Mrs. Leslie), 224, 557–58

  Lyell, Charles, 212, 555

  Lyon, Isabel Van Kleek (secretary): biographical information, 473, 651, 652; Bermuda trip, 611; Clara’s suspicions, 655; errands for Olivia, 101, 102; Harpers’ Christian Science advertisement, 529; “Hon. Sec.” of The Human Race (club), 643; Orion’s autobiography, 27, 473; playing the orchestrelle, 376, 618; reporters handled, 31–32, 476; SLC’s letters gathered, 508; telephone conversation, 198–99

  topics and events recorded: Annie Fuller, 482; clairvoyant reading, 625; Dublin household, 511; Duneka’s reaction to “No. 44,” 530; Helen Keller, 617–18; Jessamy Harte benefit, 638–39; Kipling, 544; Luckstone (music teacher), 568; missing autobiographical dictations, 615; old letters unearthed, 521–22; palm readings, 640; poetry misattributed to Susy, 618, 619; proposed speech on Standard Oil, 564; rumors that SLC will remarry, 565; SLC’s dinner and billiards with Dunne, 619, 620; SLC’s letter to Orr, 535; Tennessee land, 46

  MacAlister, John Y. W., 640

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, 289, 341, 586–87

  MacVeagh, Franklin, 109, 511

  Macy, Annie Sullivan: biographical information, 582; cowboy’s praise, 413–15; in need of support, 279–80, 582; as SLC’s dinner guest, 374–75, 617–18

  Macy, John, 374, 617, 618

  Madison Square Garden (N.Y.), 384–85, 621–22, 647

  Majestic Theatre (N.Y.), 8–9, 462

  Malet, Edward (British ambassador), 181, 546

  Malone, Edmond, 570

  Malory, Thomas, 218–19

  Mandeville, Geoffrey de (called Godfrey), 367–68, 614

  Manners, 8–9, 362, 462

  Manning, Daniel, 13, 464

  Manning, James H., 13, 464

  Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy (queen of Italy), 400, 625

  “Mark Twain (A Post-prandial Obituary)” (Bangs), 510

  “Mark Twain” pseudonym: Isaiah Sellers’s use, 230, 561–62; meaning, 356–57; SLC’s first use, 239, 567, 650

  Mark Twain House and Museum, 505, 573

  Mark Twain in Eruption (DeVoto), 620

  Mark Twain’s Library of Humor: 1888 edition, issued by Webster and Company (SLC, Howells, and Clark, eds.), 77, 146, 501, 520–21, 528, 530, 534; 1906 edition, issued by Harpers, 146–48, 149, 530–31

  “Mark Twain’s Own Account,” 434–36, 640–41

  “Mark Twain’s Pat
ent Self-Pasting Scrap Book,” 55, 490

  Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old, 53, 542, 602, 650

  Mark Twain’s Speeches (Paine), 462

  Marmion, Robert, 367–68, 614

  Marr, Thomas E., 543

  Marsh, Mrs. E. L., 542

  Marsh, May, 542

  Marshall, John, 308–9, 592–93

  Mary (cook), 511

  Mary (queen of Scots), 333

  Massachusetts: Dighton Rock (Berkley), 364, 613; Huckleberry Finn banned by Concord library, 29, 33. See also Boston; Fairhaven

  Massiglia, Countess (Frances Paxton), 399, 400, 625

  Mather, Cotton, 117, 516

  Matilda (queen of England), 614

  •Matthews, Brander, 30, 273–74, 475, 580, 607

  McAleer, Patrick, 292–93, 380, 446, 620

  McCall, Peter, 592

  McClellan, George B., 265, 500, 578

  McClure, Robert, 197–98, 553

  McClure, S. S., 553

  McCullough, John, 425, 637

  McCurdy, Richard A., 13, 464

  McFarland, Lethe Reynolds (called Mrs. Crawford), 301, 590–91

  McGlural, Smiggy. See McGrew, William K.

  McGraw, Jennie (Mrs. Daniel Willard Fiske), 34–35, 478, 479

  McGraw, John, 34, 478

  McGrew, John L., 12

  McGrew, William K. (Smiggy McGlural), 116–17, 118, 119, 516

  McKinley, William, 9, 458, 464, 508, 595, 648

  McVay, George W., 642

  Meat Inspection Act (U.S., 1906), 116, 516

  Medici, Catherine de’, 524

  Medill, Joseph, 252, 573

  Mental telegraphy, 198, 582

  Mergenthaler Company, 505

  Merritt, John A., 3, 7, 458

  Merwin-Clayton Company, 10, 12–13

  Mesmer, Franz, 591

  Mesmerism: and Baron F. incident, 304–6; SLC’s confession not believed, 302–4; SLC’s experience in Hannibal, 297–302; theory, 591–92

  Metropolitan Club (N.Y.), 105, 510

  Mexican War (1846–48), 497, 616

  Millet, Francis D., 598

  Mind cure, 330–31, 342–43, 513, 602, 655

  Miners and mining interests: corporate charters and fees, 5, 458–59; Esmeralda region, 168–69, 238, 540, 566, 649; Hale and Norcoss mine, 18, 20–21, 422–23, 468; and Harte, 118, 415, 517–18, 630; Humboldt region, 238, 566, 649; Jackass Hill (or Gulch), 118, 384, 422, 514, 621, 636. See also Higbie, Calvin

  Miners’ Restaurant (San Francisco), 324, 600