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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

  • Description: Browse links to chapters of the book

Autobiography of Mark Twain

  • Description: Early Attempts and the complete Autobiographical Dictations

Browse Early Tales and Sketches

  • Description: Chronological list of links to the individual works in volumes one and two of the Mark Twain Project's Early Tales & Sketches

Appendixes and Editorial Matter

  • Description: The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript, Photographs, Appendixes, and front and back matter from the three-volume Mark Twain Project edition

Appendixes and Editorial Matter

  • Description: Editorial Introduction, Appendixes, Textual Introduction, Guide to the Textual Apparatus, Description of Texts

Editorial Introduction, Volume 1

  • Description: Editorial introduction from volume one of Mark Twain's Early Tales and Sketches

Editorial Introduction, Volume 2

  • Description: Editorial introduction from volume two of Mark Twain's Early Tales and Sketches

A Gallant Fireman

  • Description: Hannibal Western Union, 16 January 1851

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter

  • Description: Boston Carpet Bag, May 1852

Hannibal, Missouri

  • Description: Philadelphia American Courier, 8 May 1852

A Family Muss

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 9 September 1852

'Local' Resolves to Commit Suicide

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 16 September 1852

'Pictur' Department

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 23 September 1852

Historical Exhibition—A No. 1 Ruse

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 16 September 1852

[Blab's Jour]

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 23 September 1852

Connubial Bliss

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 4 November 1852

The Heart's Lament

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 5 May 1853

Love Concealed

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 6 May 1853

[First Letter from Grumbler]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 7 May 1853

[First Letter from Rambler]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 9 May 1853

To Rambler

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 10 May 1853

[Letter from Peter Pencilcase's Son, John Snooks]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 12 May 1853

[Second Letter from Rambler]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 13 May 1853

Separation

  • Description: Hannibal Missouri Courier, 12 May 1853

“Oh, She Has a Red Head!”

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 13 May 1853

The Burial of Sir Abner Gilstrap, Editor of the Bloomington “Republican”

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 23 May 1853

“Jul'us Caesar”

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1855–1856

Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

  • Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

To Mollie

  • Description: Manuscript, 20 April 1856

“Lines Suggested by a Reminiscence, and Which You Will Perhaps Understand”

  • Description: Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, Early May 1856

To Jennie

  • Description: Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, 7 May 1856

[River Intelligence]

  • Description: New Orleans Crescent, 17 May 1859

[The Mysterious Murders in Risse]

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1 August 1859

[Pilot's Memoranda]

  • Description: St. Louis Missouri Republican, 30 August 1860

[Ghost Life on the Mississippi]

  • Description: Manuscript, January–June 1861

Petrified Man

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4 October 1862 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Sacramento Union, Nevada [CA] Democrat, San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Auburn [CA] Placer Herald)

The Spanish Mine

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, late October 1862 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Oroville [CA] Butte Record)

Introduction

  • Description: Editorial introduction to the three-volume Mark Twain Project edition

The Pah-Utes

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 13–19 December 1862 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Marysville [CA] Appeal)

The Illustrious Departed

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28 December 1862

Our Stock Remarks

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 30–31 December 1862

More Ghosts

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1 January 1863

New Year’s Day

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1 January 1863

Unfortunate Thief

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8 January 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Stockton Independent)

The Sanitary Ball

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 10 January 1863

Due Notice

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 10 January 1863

Territorial Sweets

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 22–28 January 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Letter from Carson City

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 3 February 1863

Letter from Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 5 February 1863

Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905

  • Description: Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905

Letter from Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8 February 1863

The Tennessee Land

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Early years in Florida, Missouri

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

The Spanish

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 or 22 February 1863

Silver Bars—How Assayed

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17–22 February 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Stockton Independent)

The Machine Episode

  • Description: (1890, 1893-94) Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Ye Sentimental Law Student

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19 February 1863

A Sunday in Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 24 February–31 March 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Rabb 1907)

Travel-Scraps I

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Four Sketches about Vienna

  • Description: '[Beauties of the German Language], [Comment on Tautology and Grammar], [A Group of Servants], [A Viennese Procession]'

The Unreliable

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 25 February 1863

My Debut as a Literary Person

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Reportorial

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 26 February 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Marysville [CA] Appeal)

Examination of Teachers

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, March–April 1863

Horace Greeley

  • Description: (1898-1899) Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

City Marshal Perry

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4 March 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Rabb 1907)

Lecture-Times

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

[Champagne with the Board of Brokers]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 7 March 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Angel 1881)

Ralph Keeler

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Advice to the Unreliable on Church-Going

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 April 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Rabb 1907)

Scraps from My Autobiography (From Chapter IX)

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Horrible Affair

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 16–18 April 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Oroville [CA] Butte Record)

Scraps from My Autobiography (Private History of a Manuscript That Came to Grief)

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19–21 May 1863

Reflections on a Letter and a Book

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

“Mark Twain's” Letter

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 9 July 1863

Something about Doctors

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

“Mark Twain's” Letter

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 30 July 1863

Henry H Rogers

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

A Duel Prevented

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 2 August 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Sacramento Union, Angel 1881)

Anecdote of Jean

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

[An Apology Repudiated]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4 August 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Angel 1881)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 25 August 1863

“Mark Twain's” Letter

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 30 August 1863

Unfortunate Blunder

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 3 September 1863

Bigler vs. Tahoe

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4–5 September 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17 September 1863

How to Cure a Cold

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 20 September 1863

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

  • Composition Date: November 1902–September 1908
  • Published in: MSMSS
  • Description: The complete text of "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" on one page

Mark Twain—More of Him

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 27 September 1863, and Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 21–24 June 1863

The Lick House Ball

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 27 September 1863

A Bloody Massacre near Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28 October 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Gold Hill [NV] News, Sacramento Union, San Francisco Evening Bulletin)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17 November 1863

A Tide of Eloquence

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1–3 December 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19–20 January 1864

Winters' New House

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 February 1864

An Excellent School

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 February 1864

Those Blasted Children

  • Description: New York Sunday Mercury, 21 February 1864

Frightful Accident to Dan De Quille

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 20 April 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Nevada City [CA] Gazette, San Francisco Golden Era, Unionville [NV] Humboldt Register)

[Dan Reassembled]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28–30 April 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the MTB)

Washoe.—“Information Wanted”

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1–15 May 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Parting Presentation

  • Description: San Francisco Alta California, 13 June 1864

“Mark Twain” in the Metropolis

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17–23 June 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. Jones

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 26 June 1864

Early Rising, As Regards Excursions to the Cliff House

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 3 July 1864

Original Novelette

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 4 July 1864

What a Sky-Rocket Did

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 12 August 1864

[Sarrozay Letter from “the Unreliable”]

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 16–22 August 1864

The New Chinese Temple

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 19 August 1864

The Chinese Temple

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 21 August 1864

Early Attempts

  • Description: An Early Attempt, My Autobiography, The Latest Attempt, The Final (and Right) Plan, Preface, The Florentine Dictations

The New Chinese Temple

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 23 August 1864

An Early Attempt

  • Description: Prefatory Materials

Supernatural Impudence

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 24 August 1864

Inexplicable News from San José

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 23 August 1864

My Autobiography (Random Extracts from It)

  • Description: Prefatory Materials

How to Cure Him of It

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 27 August 1864

Second Preface, in Three Parts

  • Description: Prefatory Materials

Due Warning

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 18 September 1864

The Mysterious Chinaman

  • Description: Manuscript facsimile, October 1864–mid-1865

A Notable Conundrum

  • Description: The Californian, 1 October 1864

Concerning the Answer to That Conundrum

  • Description: The Californian, 8 October 1864

Still Further Concerning That Conundrum

  • Description: The Californian, 15 October 1864

Whereas

  • Description: The Californian, 22 October 1864

A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood

  • Description: The Californian, 29 October 1864

Daniel in the Lion's Den—and Out Again All Right

  • Description: The Californian, 5 November 1864

The Killing of Julius Cæsar “Localized”

  • Description: The Californian, 12 November 1864

A Full and Reliable Account of the Extraordinary Meteoric Shower of Last Saturday Night

  • Description: The Californian, 19 November 1864

Lucretia Smith's Soldier

  • Description: The Californian, 3 December 1864

An Unbiased Criticism

  • Description: The Californian, 18 March 1865

Important Correspondence

  • Description: The Californian, 6 May 1865

Further of Mr. Mark Twain's Important Correspondence

  • Description: The Californian, 13 May 1865

How I Went to the Great Race between Lodi and Norfolk

  • Description: The Californian, 27 May 1865

A Voice for Setchell

  • Description: The Californian, 27 May 1865

Answers to Correspondents

  • Description: The Californian, 3 June 1865

Answers to Correspondents

  • Description: The Californian, 10 June 1865

Answers to Correspondents

  • Description: The Californian, 17 June 1865

Enthusiastic Eloquence

  • Description: San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 23 June 1865

Answers to Correspondents

  • Description: The Californian, 24 June 1865

Just “One More Unfortunate”

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 27–30 June 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Downieville [CA] Mountain Messenger)

Answers to Correspondents

  • Description: The Californian, 1 July 1865

Advice for Good Little Boys

  • Description: San Francisco Youth's Companion, 1 July 1865 (Youth's Companion printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Yreka City [CA] Weekly Union)

Advice for Good Little Girls

  • Description: San Francisco Youth's Companion, 1 or 8 July 1865 (Youth's Companion printing is not extant; copy-text is from JF1)

Mark Twain on the Colored Man

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 7–19 July 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from San Francisco Golden Era)

Answers to Correspondents

  • Description: The Californian, 8 July 1865

The Facts

  • Description: The Californian, 26 August 1865

The Only Reliable Account of the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1 September–16 October 1865

Angel's Camp Constable

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1 September–16 October 1865

The Cruel Earthquake

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 10–11 October 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in Gold Hill News)

Popper Defieth Ye Earthquake

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 15—31 October 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from unidentified reprinting in Yale Scrapbook)

Earthquake Almanac

  • Description: San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 17 October 1865

Bob Roach's Plan for Circumventing a Democrat

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 21–24 October 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in San Francisco Examiner)

[San Francisco Letter]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 26–28 October 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in San Francisco Evening Bulletin)

Steamer Departures

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 31 October–2 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in an unidentified source preserved in Yale Scrapbook)

Exit “Bummer”

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in The Californian)

Pleasure Excursion

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 9–12 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is reconstructed from separate reprintings in San Francisco Golden Era and San Francisco Examiner)

[Editorial “Puffing”]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 15–18 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in San Francisco Examiner)

Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog

  • Description: New York Saturday Press, 18 November 1865

The Old Thing

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 18 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in The Californian)

“Mark Twain” on the Launch of the Steamer “Capital”

  • Description: The Californian, 18 November 1865

The Pioneers' Ball

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19 or 21 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is reconstructed from reprintings in The Californian and San Francisco Golden Era)

The Great Earthquake in San Francisco

  • Description: New York Weekly Review, 25 November 1865

The Guard on a Bender

  • Description: Napa County Reporter, 25 November 1865

Benkert Cometh!

  • Description: Napa County Reporter, 25 November 1865

Uncle Lige

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28–30 November 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in The Californian)

Webb's Benefit

  • Description: Napa County Reporter, 2 December 1865

A Rich Epigram

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8–10 December 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in San Francisco American Flag)

A Graceful Compliment

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 10–31 December 1865

“Christian Spectator”

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 13–15 December 1865

More Romance

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 13–15 December 1865

Grand Fete-Day at the Cliff House

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19–21 December 1865 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in San Francisco Examiner)

Macdougall vs. Maguire

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 22–23 December 1865

The Christmas Fireside

  • Description: The Californian, 23 December 1865

Enigma

  • Description: The Californian, 23 December 1865

San Francisco Letter

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 24 or 26 December 1865

Another Enterprise

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 26–27 December 1865

Spirit of the Local Press

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 26–27 December 1865

Convicts

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 31 December 1865

Fitz Smythe's Horse

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 16–18 January 1866 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprintings in San Francisco Golden Era and Beadle's Dime Book of Fun No. 3)

Closed Out

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 30–31 January 1866

Take the Stand, Fitz Smythe

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 6–7 February 1866

Remarkable Dream

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8–10 February 1866

Appendixes, Volume 1

  • Description: Appendixes A, B, and C from Early Tales & Sketches, Volume 1

Autobiographical Dictations

  • Description: Complete browsable list of the autobiographical dictations beginning 9 January 1906

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 January 1906

  • Description: I shall scatter through this Autobiography newspaper clippings without end...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 January 1906

  • Description: I have to make several speeches within the next two or three months...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 January 1906

  • Description: I received the following letter some days ago, from Mrs. Laura K. Hudson...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 January 1906

  • Description: This talk about Mr. Whittier's seventieth birthday reminds me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 January 1906

  • Description: The piety-ending was used also by Franklin and Johnson, and possibly by the rest...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 January 1906

  • Description: Rev. Dr. Burton swung his leonine head around, focused me with his eye...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 January 1906

  • Description: That incident made a strong impression upon me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 January 1906

  • Description: With considerable frequency, since then, I have tried to get publishers...

Appendix A

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 January 1906

  • Description: Senator Tilman, of South Carolina, has been making a speech...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 January 1906

  • Description: In those early days dueling suddenly became a fashion...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 January 1906

  • Description: There was a great mass meeting at Carnegie Hall last night...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 January 1906

  • Description: It is plain, I think, that this old article was written about twenty-two years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 February 1906

  • Description: Joe was not quite present. It was not etiquette for him...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 February 1906

  • Description: It explained that Susy was slightly ill...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 February 1906

  • Description: His was a sweet and winning face...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 February 1906

  • Description: When Susy was twelve and a half years old, I took to the platform again...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 February 1906

  • Description: When Susy was thirteen, and was a slender little maid...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 February 1906

  • Description: Along one side of the library, in the Hartford home, the bookshelves joined...

Appendix B

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 February 1906

  • Description: Susy's remark about my strong language troubles me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 February 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 February 1906

  • Description: I recall several of them without much difficulty...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 February 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 February 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 February 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 February 1906

  • Description: It is death-notices like this that enable me to realize in some sort...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 February 1906

  • Description: But I am wandering far from Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 February 1906

  • Description: I have wandered far from Susy's chat about her grandfather...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 February 1906

  • Description: During the previous year or year and a half...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 February 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 March 1906

  • Description: I was always heedless...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 March 1906

  • Description: I was very anxious to keep him in his place...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 March 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 March 1906

  • Description: It turned out just so...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 March 1906

  • Description: I am talking of a time sixty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 March 1906

  • Description: We will stop talking about my schoolmates of sixty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 March 1906

  • Description: The ominous paralysis continues...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 March 1906

  • Description: POLICE HUSTLE CROWD AWAITING MARK TWAIN...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 March 1906

  • Description: We will return to those school children of sixty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 March 1906

  • Description: One of the standing delights of the American nation...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 March 1906

  • Description: Certainly mental telegraphy is an industry which is always silently at work...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 March 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 March 1906

  • Description: A good many years ago Mrs. Clemens used to keep...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 March 1906

  • Description: ROCKEFELLER, JR., ON WEALTH...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 March 1906

  • Description: I have allowed Higbie to assist...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 March 1906

  • Description: My brother's experience was another conspicuous example...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 March 1906

  • Description: But I am in error. Orion did not come...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 March 1906

  • Description: I will drop Orion for the present and return...

Appendix C

Appendixes, Volume 2

  • Description: Appendixes A, B, and C from Early Tales & Sketches, Volume 2

Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

  • Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 April 1906

  • Description: PROMOTION FOR BARNES...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 April 1906

  • Description: BARNES'S APPOINTMENT ANGERS WASHINGTON...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 April 1906

  • Description: MRS. MORRIS CASE IN SENATE...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 April 1906

  • Description: Am I standing upon the world's back and looking east...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 April 1906

  • Description: This house is No. 21 Fifth Avenue...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 April 1906

  • Description: This morning's mail brings me from France a letter...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 April 1906

  • Description: When "Huck Finn" was flung out of the Concord Public Library...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 April 1906

  • Description: I am not glancing through my books to find out...

Appendix A

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 May 1906

  • Description: We are to abide here in the green solitude of the woods...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 May 1906

  • Description: But I must go back to Webb...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 May 1906

  • Description: My opportunity was now come to right myself...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 May 1906

  • Description: As I have already remarked, I had imported my nephew-in-law...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 May 1906

  • Description: Webster conceived the idea that he had discovered me to the world...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 May 1906

  • Description: His new quarters were on the second or third floor...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 May 1906

  • Description: This is a magnificent morning...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 June 1906

  • Description: Whenever galley-proofs or revises went to General Grant...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 June 1906

  • Description: I suspected that the bookkeeper, Scott, was going to have...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 June 1906

  • Description: To-morrow will be the 5th of June...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 June 1906

  • Description: York Harbor consists of a widely scattered cluster...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 June 1906

  • Description: Several times, in letters written to friends, in those days...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 June 1906

  • Description: After a week of silence and inanition I hardly know...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 June 1906

  • Description: During fifty-six years, the whole great globe...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 June 1906

  • Description: How wonderful are the ways of Providence...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 June 1906

  • Description: Harte was paid for setting type only...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 June 1906

  • Description: Let me consider that I have now been dead...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 June 1906

  • Description: Our Bible reveals to us the character of our God...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 June 1906

  • Description: There are one or two curious defects about Bibles...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 June 1906

  • Description: For two years, now, Christianity has been repeating, in Russia...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 June 1906

  • Description: Let us now consider the real God...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 June 1906

  • Description: It is to these celestial bandits...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 July 1906

  • Description: Five or six weeks ago, when I was dictating...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 July 1906

  • Description: I am back again in this country house...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 July 1906

  • Description: Colonel Harvey will arrive here to-night...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 August 1906

  • Description: Let us go back three months, now...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 August 1906

  • Description: Who saves my soul does me a service...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 August 1906

  • Description: There is one great trouble about dictating...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 August 1906

  • Description: This morning's mail brings me this clipping...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 August 1906

  • Description: From the beginning of time, philosophers of all breeds...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 August 1906

  • Description: The group sat on the veranda...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 August 1906

  • Description: My school days began when I was four years and a half old...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 August 1906

  • Description: Several weeks ago, in Chapter XLI...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 August 1906

  • Description: Higbie's reply had come...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 August 1906

  • Description: In this morning's mail comes a letter from a stranger...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 August 1906

  • Description: I was never willing to destroy...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 August 1906

  • Description: Around about here, in the New Hampshire woods and hills...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 September 1906

  • Description: We carried out our project at the club...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 September 1906

  • Description: There is one thing which fills me with wonder...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 September 1906

  • Description: It is years since I have examined the Children's Record...

Appendix B

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 September 1906

  • Description: For good or for evil, we continue to educate Europe...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 September 1906

  • Description: I have not yet finished about the British Premier...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 October 1906

  • Description: I have been to New York and to Fairhaven again...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 October 1906

  • Description: Yesterday I mentioned that on 22d of September...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 October 1906

  • Description: It was my purpose, yesterday morning, to talk about...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 October 1906

  • Description: Several weeks ago I injected into one of these chapters...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 October 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 October 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 October 1906

  • Description: I couldn't finish, yesterday...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 October 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 October 1906

  • Description: I broke off there yesterday...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 October 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 October 1906

  • Description: Warner is gone. Stockton is gone....

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 October 1906

  • Description: I remember a circumstance in support of this conviction....

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 November 1906

  • Description: The first time I was in Egypt....

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 November 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 November 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 November 1906

  • Description: Georgia Cayvan is dead....

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 November 1906

  • Description: Before I close this talk about methods of raising money....

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 November 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 November 1906

  • Description: I was supposing that I had said, yesterday....

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 November 1906

  • Description: I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because....

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 November 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 December 1906

  • Description: An exciting event in our village (Hannibal)....

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 December 1906

  • Description: In 1847 we were living in a large white house....

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 December 1906

  • Description: One evening we dined with the C.'s....

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 December 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 December 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 December 1906

  • Description: As regards the coming American monarchy....

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 December 1906

  • Description: As I have already remarked, "Old Times on the Mississippi"....

Appendix C

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 December 1906

  • Description: I went to Washington, a fortnight ago....

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 December 1906

  • Description: That was an odd mission of mine....

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 December 1906

  • Description: Six months ago, when I was recalling early days....

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 December 1906

  • Description: I wish to insert here some pages....

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 December 1906

  • Description: I lately received a letter from England....

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 December 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 December 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 December 1906

  • Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation 6 January 1907

  • Description: That reminds me....

Autobiographical Dictation 9 January 1907

  • Description: There has been an incident....

Autobiographical Dictation 15 January 1907

  • Description: The human race was always interesting....

Autobiographical Dictation 17 January 1907

  • Description: Helen Keller dined with us yesterday evening....

Autobiographical Dictation 22 January 1907

  • Description: In an earlier chapter I inserted....

Autobiographical Dictation 23 January 1907

  • Description: The proverb says that Providence protects children....

Autobiographical Dictation 28 January 1907

  • Description: In the middle of the afternoon, day before yesterday....

Autobiographical Dictation 29 January 1907

  • Description: Those hand readings were made two years ago....

Autobiographical Dictation 30 January 1907

  • Description: The political and commercial morals of the United States....

Autobiographical Dictation 1 February 1907

  • Description: Last summer I dictated some remarks....

Autobiographical Dictation 4 February 1907

  • Description: In these days things are happening which bring Bret Harte....

Autobiographical Dictation 11 February 1907

  • Description: Two months ago (December 6) I was dictating....

Autobiographical Dictation 12 February 1907

  • Description: Those stars indicate the long chapter....

Autobiographical Dictation 19 February 1907

  • Description: About thirty-five years ago (1872)....

Autobiographical Dictation 25 February 1907

  • Description: As I have said once or twice already....

Autobiographical Dictation 26 February 1907

  • Description: Last week I started a club....

Autobiographical Dictation 27 February 1907

  • Description: I am not a history maker....

Autobiographical Dictation 28 February 1907

  • Description: The most lurid cause celebre of modern ages....

Apparatus Introduction, Volume 1

  • Description: Textual Introduction, Guide to the Apparatus, and Description of Texts

Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

  • Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 March 1907

  • Description: Isabella Beecher Hooker is dead. I first made her acquaintance about forty years ago...

Apparatus Introduction, Volume 2

  • Description: Guide to the Apparatus and Description of Texts

Editorial Preface (The Ashcroft Lyon Manuscript)

  • Description: Mark Twain wrote this long manuscript, which he left untitled, over a period of more than four months...

The Ashcroft Lyon Manuscript

  • Description: In your day, a hundred years hence, this Manuscript will have a distinct value...

The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript Page

  • Description: Transcription of the Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript and the editorial introduction to the transcription

Appendixes

  • Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Working Notes for Ashcroft-Lyon, Sketch by Warner, Sketch by Moffett...

Appendixes, Volume 1

  • Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Speech at the Seventieth Birthday Dinner, ...Souvenir of the Event, Speech at the Players, Previous Publication

Appendixes, Volume 2

  • Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Previous Publication

Appendixes, Volume 3

  • Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Clemens's Working Notes for "The Ashcroft-Lyon MS," 1873 Notes, 1899 Notes, Proposition for a Postal Check, Ashcroft-Lyon Chronology, Ashcroft to Stanchfield, Previous Publication

Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

  • Description: Back matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

  • Description: Back matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

  • Description: Back matter (Note on the Text, Word Division, References, Index) published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

Photographs

  • Description: Photographs published in Mark Twain Project edition of Autobiography of Mark Twain

Photographs from Volume 1

  • Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Photographs from Volume 2

  • Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

Photographs from Volume 3

  • Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

Front and Back Matter from the Mark Twain Project Edition

  • Description: Title pages, tables of contents, acknowledgments, introductions, biographies, word division, and indexes from Autobiography of Mark Twain, as published by Mark Twain Project