Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
LECTURES AND SPEECHES: “The American Vandal Abroad,”
“Artemus Ward, Humorist,”
Australia
Authors’ Readings
“The Babies” (toast to Grant)
Barnard College
Berlin
Ceylon
first New York lecture
“The Frozen Truth,”
“The Golden Arm” (“The Woman with the Golden Arm,” “A Ghost Story”)
hiatus
Holmes breakfast
India
Jewish benefit
lecture-circuit experiences
London
Longfellow Memorial Association
New Zealand
Players club
“Reminiscences of Some un-Commonplace Characters I Have Chanced to Meet,”
Republican rally (introduction of Grant)
Robert Fulton Memorial Association
“Roughing It” lecture
Sandwich Islands lecture
seventieth birthday dinner
South Africa
speeches November 1905–April 1906
spelling bee
technique at social banquets
tour with Cable
Tuskegee Institute
Twentieth Century Club
Vassar College
Vienna
Washington, D.C.
Westside Y.M.C.A. (Majestic Theatre)
“whistling story,”
Whittier birthday dinner
world tour
MINER
MISSISSIPPI RIVER PILOT
PSEUDONYM
SENATORIAL SECRETARY
TRAVEL. See also Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, LECTURES AND SPEECHES, world tour
Quaker City excursion
and individual place names
TYPESETTER AND PRINTER
WORKS: “Aguinaldo” (book review)
Ah Sin
The American Claimant
“Anson Burlingame,”
“Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,”
“At the Appetite-Cure,”
autobiographical notes (1899)
“An Autobiography,”
“Autobiography of a Damned Fool,”
“Boy’s Manuscript,”
“Captain Montgomery,”
“Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,”
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches
Christian Science
“Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy,”
“Closing Words of My Autobiography,”
Collected Works editions
Colonel Sellers (Gilded Age play)
“Concerning Copyright,”
“Concerning the Jews,”
“Conversations with Satan,”
“The Countess Massiglia,”
“A Defence of General Funston,”
“Doings in Nevada,”
“Dueling,”
“An Encounter with an Interviewer,”
“English as She Is Taught,”
Europe and Elsewhere
“The Facts in the Case of George Fisher, Deceased,”
“The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract,”
“Fortifications of Paris,”
“Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat,”
“From Chapter XVII,”
“A Gallant Fireman,”
“General Washington’s Negro Body-Servant,”
“Hellfire Hotchkiss,”
“Henry H. Rogers (Continued),”
“A Horse’s Tale,”
“How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel,”
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
“Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians,”
“Huck Finn” (1902 fragment)
“The Innocents Adrift” (“Down the Rhone”)
“Interview with Gen. Grant,”
“Jane Lampton Clemens,”
“Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,”
“Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats,”
“Josh” letters
“Jul’us Caesar,”
King Leopold’s Soliloquy
“The Late Benjamin Franklin,”
“Macfarlane,”
“The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm,”
“Major General Wood, M.D.,”
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays
“Marjorie Fleming, the Wonder Child,”
Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography
Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old
“The Memorable Assassination,”
“Memorial to Susy,”
“Mental Telegraphy,”
“Mental Telegraphy Again,”
More Tramps Abroad
My Début as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories
“My First Lie and How I Got Out of It,”
“My Platonic Sweetheart,”
“New Huck Finn,”
“No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger,”
“Old Times on the Mississippi,”
“On the Decay of the Art of Lying,”
Personal Re-collections of Joan of Arc
“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed,”
“A Record of the Small Foolishnesses of Susie & ‘Bay’ Clemens (Infants),”
“Riley—Newspaper Correspondent,”
“‘Russian Liberty Has Had Its Last Chance’” (“The Treaty of Portsmouth”)
“Schoolhouse Hill,”
South African diamond mine book (proposed)
The Stolen White Elephant, Etc.
“St. Petersburg Fragment,”
Tom Sawyer Abroad
“Tom Sawyer, Detective,”
“Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy,”
“To My Missionary Critics,”
“To the Person Sitting in Darkness,”
“To the Rev. S. C. Thompson,”
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
“Travel-Scraps II,”
A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime
“A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It,”
“A Trying Situation,”
“The Turning Point of My Life,”
“Two Little Tales,”
“Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain,”
“Villagers of 1840”3,”
“Wapping Alice” (“English Mary”)
“The War-Prayer,”
What Is Man?. See also Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; Following the Equator; The Gilded Age; The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; “The Mysterious Stranger” manuscripts; The Prince and the Pauper; Roughing It; A Tramp Abroad
Clemens, Sherrard
Clements, Gregory (“Geoffrey”)
Clements, Richard
Clements, Robert
Cleveland, Frances Folsom (Mrs. Grover Cleveland)
Cleveland, Grover
Authors’ Reading reception
letters honoring birthday
as mayor and sheriff of Buffalo
response to SLC’s letter to daughter Ruth
SLC’s plea for Mason
visit of SLC and Cable when governor. See also Cleveland-Blaine election
Cleveland, Ruth (“Baby Ruth”)
Cleveland-Blaine election and “mugwumps,”
Cleveland Leader
“Closing Words of My Autobiography,”
Clough, Frederick
Coit, Robert
Collier’s Weekly
Colonel Sellers (Gilded Age play)
Colt, Samuel
Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company
“Comment on Tautology and Grammar,”
C
onfessions (Rousseau)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Consolidated Virginia Mine
Copyright: dispute over Quaker City letters
saved when Webster and Company failed
SLC’s scheme to extend
Cord, Mary Ann (Auntie)
Cornell University
Cosimo I
Cosmopolitan (periodical)
Cox, James
Crane, Susan Langdon (Mrs. Theodore Crane; Aunt Susy)
father’s final illness
inherits Quarry Farm
spelling ability. See also Quarry Farm
Crane, Theodore
Creswell, John A. J.
The Critic (periodical)
The Critic (play)
Croker, Eyre Coote
Croker, Richard
Cunningham, Dr.
Cutler, Ellen (Mrs. William K. Cutler)
Cutler, William K.
Daggett, Rollin M.
Daly, Augustin
Daly, Joseph F.
Daniel (Uncle Dan’l, slave)
Dante
Davis, Charles E.
Dawson, John D.
Dawson’s school
Dawson, Noble E.
De Cordova, Raphael
Democratic Party
Jeremiah and Sherrard Clemens
Morris incident
SLC’s opposition to Tilden.
See also Cleveland-Blaine election
Dennison, William
Depew, Chauncey M.
De Quille, Dan. See Wright, William H.
Derby, George Horatio (“Squibob”; “John Phoenix”)
Devens, Charles
DeVoto, Bernard. See Mark Twain in Eruption
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Dick, William Brisbane
Dick and Fitzgerald
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Anna
Dilke, Charles Wentworth
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
Doctors
Olivia Clemens’s experience as teenage invalid
Dodge, Mary Mapes
Dodge, Richard Irving
Dodge, William E.
Dodgson, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll)
Dolby, George
Douglas, David
Douglas, Joe
Douglas, John H.
Douglass, Frederick
Drake, Francis
Drew, John
Drinking: anecdote about Episcopal sextons
anecdote about drunken sutler. See also Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, ATTITUDES AND HABITS, eating and drinking
Dueling: rival editors in Virginia City, Nev. Terr.
SLC’s “Dueling” manuscript
Wise and Clemens
Dublin, N.H.: SLC dictates autobiography
SLC spends summers
visit of Harvey
Duncan, Charles C.
Duncan, Joseph W.
Dunham, Austin Cornelius
Dunham, Samuel G.
“An Early Attempt,”
École des Beaux-Arts
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eddy, Theodore
Eddy, William
Edinburgh
Edison, Thomas A.
Edwards, Henry
Elcho, Lord (Francis Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas)
Eliot, Charles William
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie (empress of Austria)
Elise (German nursemaid)
Elmira, N.Y.: cemetery
SLC and OLC’s wedding
SLC’s experience with doctor
SLC’s visit to court Olivia Langdon; See also Quarry Farm
Elmira Female College
Elmira Water Cure
Emerson, Ellen
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Whittier birthday dinner
“Emmeline” (painting)
England. See London
English Mary (servant)
Enterprise Publishing Company
Erie Railroad Company
Fagnani, Charles P.
Fair, James G.
Fairbanks, Charles W.
Fairbanks, Mary Mason
Fairchild, Charles
Fairchild, Lucius
Fairfax, Charles Snowden
Fairfax, Thomas
Fairfax, William
Fall, George L.
Farnham Type-Setter Manufacturing Company
Faulkner, Barry (“Guy”)
Ferguson. See Lee, Harvey
Ferguson, Henry
diary entries on Hornet incident
objection to SLC’s use of diaries
Ferguson, Samuel
death
diary entries on Hornet incident
Field, Kate
Fields, Annie Adams (Mrs. James T. Fields)
Fields, James T.
“The Final (and Right) Plan,”
Finley, John H.
Finn, James (Jimmy)
Fish, James D.
Fiske, Abby M. Brooks (Mrs. John Fiske)
Fiske, John
Fiske, Willard
Fitch, Thomas
FitzGerald, Dr.
Fitzgerald, Edward
Fitz-John Porter Bill
Fitzsimmons, Robert
Fleming, Marjory
Flood, James Clair
Florence: Clemens family 1892–93 residence
Clemens family 1903–4 residence
death of Olivia
SLC’s visit to Mary Wilkes
“Villa di Quarto,”
Villa Viviani
The Florentine Dictations: creation and inclusion in the autobiography
texts and notes
Florida, Mo.: Clemens family births and deaths
Clemens family residence
SLC’s childhood recollections. See also Quarles farm
Following the Equator
English edition
writing of
Foote, Edward M.
Foote, Lilly Gillette
Four Sketches about Vienna
Fourtou, Marie François Oscar Bardy de
France: Clemens family residence in Paris