by Mark Twain
as “General,”
mother’s indulgence of
Quaker City excursion
wagon incident
Langdon, Ida B. Clark (Mrs. Charles Jervis Langdon)
Langdon, Jervis
business interests
buys house for newlywed Clemenses
buys Quarry Farm
illness and death
offers to buy Tennessee land
potential railway magnate
SLC’s courtship of daughter Olivia
Susy Clemens’s biography
Langdon, Julie. See Loomis, Julie Olivia Langdon
Langdon, Olivia Lewis (Mrs. Jervis Langdon)
Langdon, Susan. See Crane, Susan Langdon
Larkin, Henry W.
“The Latest Attempt,”
Lawrence, Joseph E.
Lawson, Thomas W.
League, William T.
Lean, Cornelius
Leary, Katy
death of Susy Clemens
“Lecture-Times,”
Lee, Harvey (“Ferguson”)
Lee, Robert E.
Leopold II (king of Belgium)
Levering, Clint
Levin boys
Life on the Mississippi
Henry Clemens’s death
Osgood as publisher
praised by Wilhelm II
prototype for Huck’s father
SLC’s experiences as Mississippi River pilot
SLC’s trip to gather material
tramp’s death
Li Hung Chang
Lincoln, Abraham
appoints Orion Clemens as favor to Bates
assassination
enjoys Nasby’s humor
Hay as assistant and biographer
Lindley, Caleb W.
Lipton, Thomas
Locke, David Ross (Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby)
Logan, John A.
Logan, Olive
London: Clemens family 1873 residence
Clemens family 1879 visit
Clemens family 1896–97 residence
Clemens family 1899–1900 residence
“Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats” plagiarized
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
SLC’s 1872 residence
London Times
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Memorial Association readings
Whittier birthday dinner
Longworth, Nicholas (horticulturist)
Longworth, Nicholas (congressman)
Loomis, Edward Eugene
Loomis, Julie Olivia Langdon (Mrs. Edward Eugene Loomis)
Lord, Mrs. Herbert
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal
A Love-Chase (play by Susy Clemens)
Lovell, Gilbert A.
Lowell, James Russell
Lyon, Isabel V.
on death of Malone
friend of Thayers in Dublin, N.H.
hired and fired
in Italy with Clemens family
marriage to Ashcroft
notes on Paine’s edition of autobiography
previous acquaintance with Countess Massiglia
publication of autobiography excerpts in North American Review
records SLC’s Florentine dictations
SLC and Bible class of Rockefeller, Jr.
SLC and Players club
SLC’s description of Roosevelt
SLC’s dictation practices and Hobby
SLC’s reading of “Random Extracts” typescript
SLC’s Y.M.C.A., speech
MacCrellish, Frederick
MacDonald, George
MacDonald, Louisa (Mrs. George MacDonald)
“The Machine Episode,”
Mackay, John W.
Macy, John
Magonigle, John Henry
Maguire, Thomas
Majestic Theatre, New York
Malone, John
Manley, R. M. (Hilary Trent)
Maria Nicolaievna, Grand Duchess
Marion Rangers. See Hannibal Home Guard
Mark Twain: A Biography (MTB) (Paine)
Paine’s plans to write
Mark Twain in Eruption (MTE) (DeVoto)
Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO)
Mark Twain’s Autobiography (MTA) (Paine)
differences from SLC’s version
writings omitted
Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
Marsh, Edward L.
Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard
Marsh, William J.
Mason, Dean B.
Mason, Frank H.
Mason, Jennie V. Birchard (Mrs. Frank H. Mason)
Massiglia, Countess (Frances Paxton) passim
Matthews, Brander
Maudslay, Alfred P.
Mauritius
Mayo, Frank
McAleer, Alice
McAleer, Anne (Nancy)
McAleer, Edward
McAleer, Mary Reagan (Mrs. Patrick McAleer)
McAleer, Michael
McAleer, Patrick
described by SLC
hired for newlywed Clemenses
illness and death
McAleer, William
McCall, John A.
McCall, John C.
McCarthy, Denis
McClellan, George B.
McClure, S. S.
McClure’s Magazine
McCormick, Wales
McCullough, John
McDaniel, James W. (Jimmy)
McDowell, Joseph Nash
McKinley, William
McKnight, George H.
McLaren, Elizabeth T.
McMurry, T. P. (Pet)
Medici, Cosimo de’ (Cosimo I)
Medici, Lorenzo de’
Mefford, Leonard
Mémoires (Casanova)
Mental telegraphy
Menzies, John
Meredith, Anna (Mrs. Hugh Meredith)
Meredith, Charles
Meredith, Henry H.
Meredith, Hugh
Meredith, John D.
Miller, Mary
Millet, Francis D. (Frank)
Miner, George R.
Mitchell, Josiah Angier
Moffett, Mary Emily Mantz (Mrs. Samuel E. Moffett)
Moffett, Pamela A. Clemens (Mrs. William A. Moffett)
birth
illness and death
on Jane Lampton Clemens
music teacher
Moffett, Samuel E.
Moffett, William A.
Monday Evening Club
Moore, Thomas
Mora, F. Luis
Morgan, John Pierpont
Moro tribe (Philippines): U.S. massacre
Morrill, Paul
Morris, Mrs. Minor
Morris, William
Moss, Mary (Mrs. Robert F. Lakenan)
Mulford, Prentice
Müller, George Friedrich
Munro, David A.
as editor of North American Review
as Players club member
Murphy, Edgar Gardner
Murray, T. Douglas
Muscatine, Iowa
Muscatine Journal: Orion Clemens buys and sells
“My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It],”
manuscript facsimile of first page
textual history
“My Debut as a Literary Person,”
My Mark Twain (Howells)
“The Mysterious Stranger” manuscripts (“Schoolhouse Hill”; “St. Petersburg Fragment”)
NAR. See North American Review
Nasby, Petroleum Vesuvius. See Locke, David Ross
Nash, Abner
Nash, Mary (Mrs. John Hubbard)
Nash, Thomas S.
Nast, Thomas
Native Americans. See also Injun Joe
Neider, Charles. See The Autobiography of Mark Twain (AMT) (Neider)
Nevada Territory: “Big Bonanza” silver strike
dueling in
scheme for Hi
gbie to get job in mine
SLC as miner. See also Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
New England Gas and Coke Company
Newman, John Philip
New Orleans: SLC seeks ship for South America
SLC stays after fight with Brown
SLC’s 1882 visit
Newton, James Rogers
New York Daily Graphic
New York Evening Post
New York Evening Sun
New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser
New York Herald: Badeau
Higbie’s account of earlier association with SLC
SLC as Washington, D.C. correspondent
SLC’s letters about Quaker City excursion
New York Saturday Press
New York Sunday Mercury
New York Times
covers “Big Bonanza” silver strike
Duncan’s lawsuit
review of autobiography chapters in North American Review
New York Tribune: Badeau
Field
Greeley
Hay
Keeler
Reid
SLC as Washington, D.C., correspondent
SLC’s letters about Quaker City excursion
Winter
Young
New York World:
Grant’s memoirs
Moffett as editorial writer
New Zealand
Nicholas I (tsar of Russia)
Nicholas II (tsar of Russia)
Nicolay, John G.
Nigra, Constantino
North, Charles R.
North, John W.
North American Review (NAR): Harvey as editor
Munro as editor
publication of autobiography chapters
Norton, Charles Eliot
“Notes on ‘Innocents Abroad,’ ”
Noyes, Edward Follansbee
Nye, Edgar Wilson (Bill)
Nye, Emma
Nye, John
O’Brien, William Shoney
Oettel, Walter
Ogden, Robert C.
O’Hagan, Joseph
O’Neil, Ellen
O’Neil, John
O’Reilly, John Boyle
Orton, Arthur
Osgood, James Ripley
Owsley, Anna B. (Nannie)
Owsley, William Perry
Page, Thomas Nelson
Paige, James W.: electromagnetic motor
printing telegraph
typesetting machine
Paine, Albert Bigelow
at autobiographical dictation sessions
handwriting on typescripts
role in inception of autobiography. See also Mark Twain’s Autobiography (MTA); Mark Twain: A Biography (MTB)
Palmer, Albert M.
Panama Canal
Parker, Edwin Pond
Parkhurst, Charles Henry
Parr, Thomas
Parsons, William
Paul Jones (steamboat)
Pavey, Jesse H.
Paxton, Frances. See Massiglia, Countess
Pearson’s Magazine
Pennsylvania (steamboat)
Pepys, Samuel
Perkins, Charles E.
Perry Davis’s Pain-Killer
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: American Publishing Company as potential publisher
Badeau’s work on
competition between Century Company and SLC to publish
Grant dictates
Grant reluctant to write
royalties
Petöfi, Sándor
Peyton, Thomas F.
Phelps, Roswell H.
Phelps, William Walter
Philadelphia, Penn.: SLC works as typesetter
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Philippines: Funston’s capture of Aguinaldo
tariff bill
U.S. massacre of Moros
Phillips, Horatio
Phillips, Wendell
Phoenix, John. See Derby, George Horatio (“Squibob”)
Picquart, Georges
Players club: dinner honoring SLC
founding
SLC’s membership
Plunkett, J. R. (Joe)
Plymouth Church (Brooklyn). See also Beecher, Henry Ward
Pomeroy, Frederick William
Pond, James B.
Porter, Fitz-John
Porter, Horace
Postal system (U.S.)
Potter. See Brooks, Preston S.
Powlison, Charles F.
Practical Jokes with Artemus Ward
Pratt and Whitney Company
“Preface. As from the Grave,”
Presbyterianism. See Religion
Prime, William C.
The Prince and the Pauper
Clemens family children’s play
publication of
Susy Clemens on
Proctor, Richard A.
Quaker City excursion
dispute over rights to SLC’s letters
SLC’s letters about. See also The Innocents Abroad
Quarles, Benjamin L.
Quarles, James A.
Quarles, John Adams. See also Quarles farm
Quarles, Martha Ann Lampton (Mrs. John Adams Quarles; Aunt Patsy)
Quarles, William Frederick (Fred)
Quarles farm:
SLC’s childhood summers
SLC’s use in fiction
Quarry Farm: Clemens family at
Olivia Clemens buried at
as residence of Cranes
“Rab and His Friends” (Brown)
“Ralph Keeler,”
“Random Extracts.” See “My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It]”
Ranzoni, Daniele
Raphael
Raybaudi-Massiglia, Annibale
Raymond, John T.
Reade, Charles
Redpath, James: definition of artist