The digital edition of Mark Twain's Notebooks offers a browsable list of all of Mark Twain's extant notebooks and a search page that assists discovery with keyword searches. It offers digital images for all of Mark Twain's extant notebooks and transcriptions for those notebooks as they become available.

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  • Browse the catalogue below by title, date, or location
    → Click notebook title → View notebook page images → access transcriptions, when available
  • Go to Search in the header above for specific terms
    → Enter keyword and apply filters → Click results or notebook title → Access relevant passages for notebooks available online or explore page images
Notebook #1: “What I Was at 19–20”
Notebook #2: “Get a Little Memorandum-Book”
Notebook #3: “A Pilot Now, Full Fledged”
Notebook #4: “By Way of Angel's . . . to Jackass Hill”
Notebook #5: “Drifting About the Outskirts of the World”
Notebook #6: “The Loveliest Fleet of Islands”
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Notebook #7: “A Doomed Voyage”
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Notebook #8: “The Great Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land”
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Notebook #9: “A Funeral Excursion Without a Corpse”
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Notebook #10: “The Camping Grounds of the Patriarchs”
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Notebook #11: “Left San Francisco for New York ... July 6, 1868”
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Notebook #12: “My First Experience in Dictating”
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Notebook #13: “To Get the World & the Devil Out of My Head”
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Notebook #14: “Fly to Some Little Corner of Europe”
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Notebook #15: “A New and Better Plan for the Book”
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Notebook #16: “Poking About with Red Guidebooks”
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Notebook #17: “To Get Through with This Painful Trial”
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Notebook #18: “Neither Winter Nor Summer Nor Morals”
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Notebook #19: “Ask Charley”
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Notebook #20: “A Profane & Irritable Man in a Hurry”
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Notebook #21: “Setting Down Volumes of Literary Stuff”
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Notebook #22: “I Must Speculate in Something”
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Notebook #23: “Telling a Story As Only He Can Tell It”
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Notebook #24: “The Nation Holds Its Breath”
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Notebook #25: “My Fiftieth Year”
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Notebook #26: “I Do Not Expect to Publish”
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Notebook #27: “Curse All Business. I Can't Understand Even the ABC of It.”
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Notebook #28: “Just Burying Myself . . . in a Book”
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Notebook #29: “One of the Vanderbilt Gang”
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Notebook #30: “I Am Out in the Cold”
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Notebook #31: Notebook 31
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Notebook #32: Notebook 32
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Notebook #33: Notebook 33
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Notebook #34: Notebook 34
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Notebook #35: Notebook 35
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Notebook #36: Notebook 36
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Notebook #37: Notebook 37
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Notebook #38: Notebook 38
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Notebook #39: Notebook 39
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Notebook #40: Notebook 40
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Notebook #41: Notebook 41
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Notebook #42: Notebook 42
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Notebook #43: Notebook 43
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Notebook #44: Notebook 44
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Notebook #45: Notebook 45
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Notebook #46: Notebook 46
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Notebook #47: Notebook 47
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Notebook #48: Notebook 48
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Notebook #49: Notebook 49
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