Recent Changes

Below is a summary of changes to MTPO. The summary is also available in rss icon Atom feed format, and updates are posted to our Twitter page, @mtpo.

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2025

2025-04-23

  • New Writings of Mark Twain landing page: links to individual works and compilation volumes; title search for compilation volumes.
  • New Letters of Mark Twain landing page: enhanced search console.
  • Added 71 newly edited Clemens letters from July through September 1884.

2025-02-24

  • Added 63 newly edited Clemens letters from April through June 1884.
  • Migrated What Is Man? and Hannibal, Huck and Tom to new writings website.
  • Enhanced features of word search (metadata search and results highlighting).
  • Added 5 newly recovered letters from 1881 through 1883.
    • SLC to Karl Gerhardt, February 1881
    • SLC to the Gerhardts, 26 June 1881
    • SLC to Unknown, 5 July 1881
    • SLC to George W. Waters, 30 December 1882
    • SLC to GWW, January–February 1883
  • Added 9 previously held back letters from 1881 and 1882.
    • SLC to Charles L. Webster, 31 August 1881
    • SLC to Charles L. Webster, 7 September 1881
    • SLC to Elisabeth N. Fairchild, 6 October 1881
    • SLC to Orion Clemens, 26 October 1881
    • SLC to Charles L. Webster, 27 October 1881
    • SLC to Charles L. Webster, 31 December 1881
    • SLC to Unidentified, May 1881
    • SLC per Franklin G. Whitmore to Edwin Wesley Montgomery, 7 January 1882
    • SLC to Edward W. Bok, 9 August 1882
  • Added 12 digital facsimiles of letter documents in the Mark Twain Papers.
    • SLC to Pamela A. Moffett, 8 October 1853
    • SLC to William A. Moffett, per Telegraph Operator, 15 June 1858
    • SLC to Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens, 18 June 1858
    • SLC to William A. Moffett, per Telegraph Operator, 21 June 1858
    • SLC to Pamela A. Moffett, 9 and 11 March 1859
    • SLC to George William Beaman, 27 January 1861
    • SLC and George Turner to Orion Clemens, 18-30 September 1861
    • Orion Clemens and SLC to Mollie Clemens, 29, 30, and 31 January 1862
    • SLC to Orion Clemens, 17 and 19 Apr 1862
    • SLC to Orion Clemens, 11 and 12 May 1862
    • SLC to Orion Clemens, 25 June 1862
    • SLC to Orion Clemens, 9 July 1862

2025-01-15

  • Launched new website.

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    Recent changes for 2024 and earlier refer to the retired MTPO website, which may be viewed at legacy.mtpo2.org.

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    2024

    • 2024-03-05: Hannibal, Huck & Tom (1969) [release 1.81.0]
    • 2024-02-06: Added 69 newly edited Clemens letters from January through March 1884.

    2023

    • 2023-10-23: Added 37 newly edited Clemens letters from October through December 1883.
    • 2023-08-03: What is Man? (1973)
    • 2023-06-21: Added 44 newly edited Clemens letters from July through September 1883. [release 1.76.2]
    • 2023-04-20: Added 50 newly edited Clemens letters from April through June 1883. [release 1.75]
    • 2023-03-28: Added 62 newly edited Clemens letters from January through March 1883. [release 1.74]
    • 2023-02-09: Added Early Tales & Sketches, Volume 2 (1864-1865). Fixes to 1876-1877 letters. [release 1.73.1]

    2022

    • 2022-12-20: Added Early Tales & Sketches, Volume 1 (1851-1864)
    • 2022-11-03: Updated and added annotations to previously published letters from June-December 1876 and June-December 1877. The digital publication of the fully edited and annotated 1876-1877 letters completes a deliverable in the current NEH Scholarly Editions Grant (2021-24).
    • 2022-05-25: Updated and added annotations to previously published letters from February-May 1876 and March through May 1877.
    • 2022-03-31: Updated previously published letters from January 1876 and January through February 1877 to align with content in forthcoming Letters Volume 7.
    • 2022-02-28: Added 47 newly edited Clemens letters from October through December 1882.
    • 2022-01-20: Added 49 newly edited Clemens letters from July through September 1882.

    2021

    • 2021-12-21: Added 48 newly edited Clemens letters from April through June 1882.
    • 2021-11-23: Added 59 newly edited Clemens letters from January through March 1882.
    • 2021-10-25: Added 132 newly edited Clemens letters from September through December 1881.
    • 2021-09-08: Added 84 newly edited Clemens letters from May through August 1881. And new letter text for SLC to Moncure D. Conway, 25 June 1873, London, England (UCCL 00932) based on a recently discovered manuscript
    • 2021-07-12: Added 85 newly edited Clemens letters from January through April 1881

    2020

    • 2020-08-03: Added A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; minor fixes to page layout in works released since late 2019; corrected typographical errors on landing page.
    • 2020-01-31: Added Fables of Man and Which Was the Dream?; fixed issues with Appendix C in Prince and the Pauper.

    2019

    • 2019-12-12: Added Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts; created Documents page from content on Resources page
    • 2019-11-19: Added Prince and the Pauper; minor corrections to letters.
    • 2019-01-16: Minor corrections to 1876 letters
    • 2019-01-16: Added new letters UCCL09996, UCCL10643, UCCL10786, UCCL11531, UCCL11632, UCCL12723, UCCL13643 to Chronology