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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
- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"....
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