330. “I should think”: LL, 309.
330. “My first duty”: LL, 306.
331. “Thunder clap”: L, 617-18; Paine omits the sentence about “convenience for the dogs”; the manuscript letter is in Berg—NYPL.
331. He sent Rogers: SLC to HHR, Dec. 22, 1894, Paris (Berg—NYPL).
332. “All my Life”: L, 621-22.
332. Five-franc piece: OLC tells this in a letter to Susan Crane (Paris, Feb. 2, 1895) in Paine, 996.
332. “It seemed”: LL, 312.
333. “She was brimming with life”: MTH, 663.
334. Friends all over the United States: SLC to S. E. Moffett, Aug. 15, 1895, Vancouver (MTP); published in J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius (New York, 1900), 225.
334. “Arrive next January”: L, 629.
334. Told Henry Harper: SLC’s letter is printed in J. Henry Harper, The House of Harper (New York, 1912), 575-76.
334. “George Washington”: Notebook No. 28A, MTP.
334. “Sham and shoddy”: SLC’s comments on FBH are quoted in C. O. Parsons, “Mark Twain in Australia,” Antioch Review, XXI, winter 1961-62, 458.
334. Jameson Raid prisoners: L, 632-33; MTN, 293-94; John Hays Hammond, Autobiography (New York, 1935), II, 398-400.
335. “Steady, unceasing feeling”: OLC to Susan Crane, Sept. 5, 1895, at sea (MTP).
335. “I don’t think”: SLC to HHR, June 6, 1896, Queenstown, Cape Colony (MTP).
335. Riley: Notebooks Nos. 28A, 29, and 30, MTP.
335. “One of the mysteries”: AU-1924, II, 34.
Chapter Sixteen (pages 336–357)
336. “She seems quite happy”: NF, 219.
336. “I wonder”: LL, 326.
336. “Mr. Clemens”: Susy’s deathbed writings are in MTP.
337. “When out of her head”: Notebook No. 31, MTP.
337. “I have hated”: LL, 324.
337. “All dog”: SLC to Pamela Moffett. Jan. 7, 1897, London (MTP).
337. “An odious world”: LL, 328.
337. ‘I have many”: L, 641.
337. “It puzzles me”: MTH, 664.
337. “Whose outside aspect”: SLC to Laurence Hutton, Feb. 20, 1898, Vienna (MTP).
338. “Subscription book”: SLC to HHR, November 1896, London (MTP).
338. “Don’t mind anything”: Quoted in MF, 180.
339. “The cloud”: MTN, 354.
339. Forest fire: L, 56; SLC describes the fire in Chapter 23 of Roughing It (W, III, 164-67)
339. “Close of a Great Career”: MTN, 327.
339. “Since bad luck”: Notebook No. 32A, MTP.
340. Writing in 1897: Sir John Adams, Everyman’s Psychology (New York, 1929), 202-3.
340. Bernard DeVoto: Mark Twain at Work (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), 116.
341. “In my age”: AU-1959, 43.
341. Was it dream: Paine, 964.
341. Speculative notion: L. L. White, The Unconscious Before Freud (New York, 1960), 169-70.
341. “Nearer, yes”: MTN, 348.
341. “I was suddenly”: MTN, 351-52.
342. Wales McCormick: AU-1959, 88.
343. “A psychosis”: Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis (New York, 1940), 61.
343n. Higginson: Anna Mary Wells, Dear Preceptor (Boston, 1963), 272-73, 307. Garland: Hamlin Garland, Roadside Meetings (New York, 1930), 37, 60-61; Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland (Austin, Tex., 1960), 15, 21. SLC to R. W. Gilder: Nov. 6 and Nov. 13, 1898, Vienna (Yale).
345. “Which Was the Dream?”: Manuscript in MTP.
345n. Hurlbert: Frank Maloy Anderson, The Mystery of a Public Man (Minneapolis, 1948), 133.
345. “My double”: MTN, 349.
346. The Great Dark: Published in Letters from the Earth (New York, 1962), 233-86.
347. “When I returned”: W, IV, 303.
347. “Nothing exists”: W, XXVII, 140.
347. “I disseminate”: N.Y. Herald, Oct. 16, 1900.
347. “Silent colossal National Lie: “My First Lie and How I Got Out of It” (W, XXIII, 169).
348. Gala benefit lecture: SLC to Frank Fuller, May 27, June 3, and July 2, 1897, London (3 letters—MTP).
349. “All friends think”: The cables from HHR and Frank Bliss are in MTP.
349. “Grown so tired”: SLC to J. G. Bennett, June 19, 1897, London (MTP).
349. “My wife won’t allow me”: SLC to Andrew Carnegie, July 7, 1897, London (Carnegie Papers—Library of Congress).
349. “Put the damage”: SLC to Frank Bliss, Nov. 4, 1897, Vienna (MTP). The N.Y. Herald review appeared Sunday, Oct. 10.
350. “I imagine those Essenes”: Orion to SLC, Nov. 30, 1897, Keokuk (MTP). On the envelope SLC wrote: “… his last letter. Preserve it. SLC.”
350. “He was good”: Published in Palimpsest, publication of the State Historical Soc. of Iowa, X, No. 10 (October 1929), 396.
350. “Your latest work”: MTH, 668.
350. “The debts”: L, 653.
350. “A quite unexpected $10,000”: MTH, 685.
351. “I have been out”: MTH, 684.
351. “The black days”: L, 734-36.
351. “Sz is not a Paige”: Paine, 1057.
352. “Not on your life”: SLC to J. Y. MacAlister, Jan. 16, 1906, New York (Barrett Coll.—photostat in MTP).
353. “The first flag”: “Jean’s Illness” (MTP). SLC also kept a “Diary of the Kellgren Cure” (MTP), in which he catalogued his own ailments.
353. “Damn all the other cures”: SLC to R. W. Gilder, July 23, 1899, Sanna, Sweden (photostat at Yale).
353. “The objection is”: Newspaper clipping in MTP.
353. “A marvelous race”: L, 647.
353. “Such cowards, hypocrites”: Nicholas Halasz, Captain Dreyfus (New York, 1955), 135.
353. “Get Madame Dreyfus to consider”: SLC to Andrew Chatto, Sept. 24, 1899, Sanna, Sweden (Berg—NYPL).
354. “Damned good”: MF, 202.
354. “Self-appointed Ambassador”: Notebook No. 32, MTP.
354. “Your 84 votes”: MTH, 696. See Allen W. Read, “The Membership in Proposed American Academies,” AL, VII, No. 2 (May 1935), 155-60.
354. “I wish you could understand”: MTH, 668.
354. “The greatest man”: MTH, 679.
354. Hamlin Garland: Garland’s account of his meeting with SLC and FBH is in his Roadside Meetings (New York, 1930), 447-53.
355. “President McKinley”: SLC to Chatto & Windus, Apr. 25, 1899, Vienna (Berg—NYPL).
355. Autobiographical sketch: A 14-page manuscript, with OLC’s penciled corrections, is in Berg—NYPL.
356. “Gush and vulgarity”: SLC to S. E. Moffett, Apr. 25, 1899, Vienna (MTP). In this letter SLC told Moffett to write the biographical sketch for Bliss. On March 31, 1899, SLC sent his own draft of the sketch to Bliss with instructions for Moffett to put it in his own language. The sketch, signed by Moffett, was published in McClure’s Magazine, October 1899.
356. Tall story: See DeLancey Ferguson, “Mark Twain’s Comstock Duel: The Birth of a Legend.” AL, XIV, No. I (March 1942), 66-70.
357. “The 20th Century is a stranger”: MTN, 372.
Chapter Seventeen (pages 358–388)
358. “Younger and jollier”: LinL, II, 138.
359. “It always puzzled me”: MF, 217.
359. “I hate to have him”: MTH, 735n.
360. Cash income: MTN, 380.
360n. Final accounting: N.Y. Times, Feb. 22, 1964.
361. “Be very guarded”: OLC to S. E. Moffett, Jan. 23, 1902, Riverdale, N.Y. (MTP).
361. Celebrity: Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image (New York, 1962), 57.
361. “Mark’s spectacular personality”: Ferris Greenslet, The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston, 1908), 220.
361. “But they would not let it go”: MTH, 735n.
362. “I must really complain”: MTH, 763-64.
302. “Corn-Pone Opinions”: W, XXIX, 399-406.
362. “I think
that England sinned”: Boston Transcript, Dec. 14, 1900.
362. “I bring you”: N.Y. Herald, Dec. 30, 1900.
363. “I am not expecting anything”: L, 704-5.
363. “Oldest and best models”: L, 763.
363. “The Tom Sawyer of the political world”: Eruption, 49-51.
363. “It is simple, direct”: MTN, 394.
364. “In ten years”: L, 715.
364. “O compassionate missionary”: W, XXIX, 249.
364. “Nothing but such a book”: SLC to Frank Bliss, Aug. 21, 1901, Saranac, N. Y. (MTP).
365. “Even half a friend”: SLC to Frank Bliss, Aug. 29, 1901, Saranac (MTP).
365. Tom and Huck stories: Notebook No. 34, MTP.
365. “It all seems so small”: Paine, 1168.
366. “Standard Oil”: Paine, 1076.
366. “When we contemplate”: SLC to “Mr. Day,” Mar. 21, 1901 (?), New York (MTP).
366. “My instincts”: SLC to Dr. Barbour, Jan. 8, 1906, New York (Berg—NYPL).
367. “The whole truth”: Paine, 1234.
367. “If we can build”: M. R. Werner, It Happened in New York (New York, 1957), 242. In addition to Werner’s account and Paine’s (1279-1286), I have drawn on the following sources for the Gorky affair: Louis J. Budd, “Twain, Howells, and the Boston Nihilists,” New England Quarterly, XXXII (September 1959), 351-71; Alexander Kaun, Maxim Gorky and His Russia (New York, 1931; Kaun quotes Franklin Giddings’ “social lynching” article); Ernest Poole, “Maxim Gorki in New York,” Slavonic and East European Review, XXII, No. 58 (May 1944), 77-83.
368. “Custom is custom”: SLC, “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (New York, 1962), 156.
369. “I more believe”: LL, 344.
369. “Almost the only crime”: SLC to Clara, May 20, 1905, Dublin, N. H. (MTP).
369. “Sozodont”: Undated note (Berg—NYPL).
370. “Poor Livy”: L, 728.
370. “The last name”: LL, 339-40.
371. Breach of contract: SLC’s deposition is in MTP.
371. “Passing off the stage”: William Lyon Phelps, Autobiography (New York, 1939), 456-57.
371. “Pathetic something”: L, 756.
371. “Full of remorse”: MTN, 387.
371. “A calamity”: MTN, 388.
371. “Bereaved circumstances”: MTN, 387.
373. Later he claimed: SLC to Elizabeth Wallace, Aug. 27, 1909, Redding, Conn. (MTP).
373. “The dinner scheme”: SLC to George Harvey, Sept. 21, 1905, Dublin, N. H. (MTP).
373. “Harvey the Magnificent”: W. F. Johnson, George Harvey (Boston, 1929), 85.
374. Publicity stunt: Isabel Lyon’s notes (Berg’NYPL).
374. “Hated Persons”: List in MTP. In Notebook No. 36, MTP, SLC said, “I wish all publishers were in hell.”
374. “Sit by the fire”: L, 774.
376. “My biographer”: SLC to “Any friend or acquaintance of mine,” Mar. 1, 1906, New York (MTP).
376. “I don’t want it done”: SLC to Clara, June 19 or 20, 1905, Dublin, N. H. (MTP).
376. “Damned fool”: SLC to S. E. Moffett, Feb. 7 or 8, 1907 (MTP).
376. “All private letters”: SLC to S. E. Moffett, July 28, 1900, London (MTP).
377. “Lost confidence in Paine”: Isabel Lyon’s notes (Berg—NYPL).
377. “Those privacies exposed”: MTH, 828.
378. “Dramatic and unconscious”: MTH, 780.
378. “Remorseless truth”: MTH, 782.
378. “When I was younger”: Paine, 1269.
379. “Dewy and breezy”: MTH, 778.
379. “Poor man”: Selected Letters of William James, ed. Elizabeth Hardwick (New York, 1961), 228-29.
379. “When I think”: Paine, 1323.
380. “Magnificent coup”: MMT, 96.
380. “Microscopic dust”:AU-1959, 368-70.
381. “As widely celebrated”:AU-1959, 349.
381. “Butter wanted”: Mark Twain’s Letters to Mary, ed. Lewis Leary (New York, 1961), opp. 67.
381. Carlotta Welles: Carlotta Welles Briggs to Dixon Wecter, Nov. 4, 1947 (MTP).
382. “Greatest American writer”: The interview with Shaw was published in Harper’s Weekly, July 20, 1007.
382. “My dear Mark Twain”: G. B. Shaw to SLC, July 3, 1907, London (MTP); except for the salutation, the letter is in Paine, 1398. Writing Saint Joan, Shaw told Lady Gregory in 1923 that he had not read SLC’s Joan of Arc for fear “of being influenced by him”; in his preface to the play (1924) Shaw said SLC’s Joan was “an unimpeachable American school teacher in armor.”
384. “Principal intimate”: AU-1924, I, 251.
384. Thank-you notes: Carnegie papers-Library of Congress.
384. “Money-lust”: L, 770.
384. “Cannot be altogether bad”: SLC’s account of the Aldine Club lunch is in Eruption, 06-105.
385. “Mr. Rogers”: MF, 278-79.
385. “Poor fellow”: MTH, 838.
386. “My father died”: SLC to Clara, Hamilton, Bermuda, Mar. 24, 1910 (MTP).
386. “Unaccountable freaks”: MF, 279.
386. “The irony of it”: SLC to Clara, Redding, Conn., July 18, 1909 (MTP).
386. “Caught Miss Lyon”: SLC to Melville Stone, Sept. 14, 1909 (MTP).
386. “A liar”: SLC to Clara, Mar. 6, 1910, Hamilton, Bermuda (MTP).
387. “For the fun of it”: MMT, 99.
387. “I hear the newspapers”: Paine, 1549.
388. “You never wrote anything greater”: MTH, 851.
INDEX
Abbey, Edwin, 221
“Adam’s Diary,” 373
Adams, John, 340
Adams, Prophet, 54
Addams, Jane, 367
Ade, George, 375
Ah Sin, 202, 205, 206, 213, 217, 256
Alcott, Bronson, 84
Alcott, Louisa May, 268
Aldine Club, 384
Aldrich, Lilian Woodman, 145-146
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 20, 131, 132, 144, 173-174, 358, 359, 361
Alexander II, Czar, 51, 363
Alexandroffsky, 177
Alta California, 58, 120
Clemens’ commissions from, 16, 23, 27, 32, 30, 125
Clemens’ letters to, 35, 43, 48, 51, 52, 56, 71, 82, 114
success of, 57
and book, 61, 68, 69. See also Innocents Abroad, writing of
Ament, Joseph, 284
American Claimant, An, 195, 306-307
American Conflict, 63
“American Humorists, The,” III
American Publisher, The, 134, 136
American Publishing Co., 60-62, 217, 237, 244, 333, 338, 360
“American Vandal Abroad, The,” 83
Ames, Representative Oakes, 163
Andrews, Dr., 40
Andreyeva, Maria, 367-368
“Angel Fish,” 381-382, 385
Angert, Eugene, 383
Another Innocent Abroad, 337
“Appeal from One That Is Persecuted, An,” 147-148
Arabian Nights, 251
Archbold, John D., 321, 326
Argonauten-Geschichten, Die, 215
Arnold, Matthew, 274, 299
Ashcroft, Ralph, 381, 386
Associated Press, 185, 386, 387
Atlantic Monthly, 20, 73, 120, 129, 144, 185, 210
Clemens and, 91 146, 168, 175, 181, 184, 186-187, 235, 243
Clemens’ works reviewed in, III, 128, 148-149, 180, 199, 229, 240
Clemens, Orion, and, 234
Harte and, 130, 132, 144
Autobiography, 59, 82, 104, 111, 179, 275-276, 280, 377-379
Autobiography of a Coward, The, 234
Autobiography of a Damned Fool, 233
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 93, 325
“Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance,” 124
Back Number, The, 314
Barnum, P. T., 160, 171, 185
Barrie, Sir James, 382
“Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,” 261
Beach, Emma, 44, 45, 68
Beach, Moses S., 41, 43
Beadle*s Dime Book of Fun, 26
Beard, Dan, 286, 367
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 14, 19, 76, 85, 160, 256, 354
on Clemens, 63
Plymouth Pulpit, 91
style of, 23-25
and Quaker City voyage, 24-25, 27-28, 41
and marriage of Clemens, 100
scandal concerning, 157-158, 162, 186
trial of, 13, 188
death of, 290
Beecher, Thomas, 24, 76, 92, 113, 192
Beerbohm, Max, 382
Belmont, Perry, 375
Ben Hur, 262
Bennett, James Gordon, 55, 59, 64, 92, 349
Bessemer, Henry, 282
Beyond the Mississippi, 61
Bierce, Ambrose, 119
Big Bonanza, The, 191-192
Billings, Josh, 32, 86, 87, 111
Black Crook, The, 22
Bliss, Elisha, 102, 120, 135, 162f., 237, 244
and Alta California letters—Innocents Abroad, 60-61, 62ff., 69f., 79, 82, 103-105
and Clemens, Orion, 134, 175, 232-233
and The Gilded Age, 166-167
and Tom Sawyer, 199, 200, 213-214
and A Tramp Abroad, 228
Bliss, Frank, 213-214, 237, 333, 338, 349, 355, 364
Booklovers’ Library, 360
Boorstin, Daniel, 361
Boston (literary), 143-146, 185-187
Boston Advertiser, 268, 270
Boston Congo Reform Association, 366
Boston Daily News, 189
Boston Evening Transcript, 208, 240
Boston Lyceum Bureau, 85-86
Boston Weekly Transcript, 358
Bostonians, The, 139
Bowen, Will, 38, 53, 64, 114-115, 119, 179
Bowles, Sam, 99
Bowser, David Watt (Wattie), 230-231, 248
Boyesen, Hjalmar, 239
Brady, Mathew, 121
Bread-Winners, The, 166
Brick Presbyterian Church, 388
Brown, John, 85
Browne, Charles Farrar, See Ward, Artemus
Browning, Robert, 171, 296
Bryn Mawr, 306, 309
Buell, Dwight, 282
Buffalo Express, 97, 99, 105, 108ff., 115-116, 117, 119, 125, 132ff., 142
Bullard, Rev., 43, 46, 54
“(Burlesque) Autobiography,” 124, 196
Burlingame, Anson, 81
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 239, 256
Burton, Rev. N. J., 289
Butler, Benjamin, 158
“By Rail Through France,” 74
Cable, George Washington, 146, 163, 244-245, 247-248, 254, 266-267, 374
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