Autobiography of Mark Twain (185 page)

letters from

letters to

marriage

opinion of Autobiographical Dictations

relationship with Susy Clemens

travel

Clemens, Ezekiel

Clemens, Henry: birth

childhood and youth

death

prototype for Sid in
Tom Sawyer

Clemens, James

Clemens, James, Jr.

Clemens, Jane Lampton

ancestry

biography

death of Henry Clemens

facility with words

letters from

letters to

marriage

on SLC’s character

on SLC’s drinking and swearing

prototype for Aunt Polly

slaves owned or hired

SLC’s childhood

Clemens, Jean (Jane Lampton)

“Anecdote of Jean,”

biography

birth

childhood and youth

Clemens family plays and charades

“Closing Words of My Autobiography,”

death

death of Susy Clemens

German nursemaid

health

letters from

love of animals

travel

typewriting and SLC typescripts

Clemens, Jeremiah (1732–1811)

Clemens, Jeremiah (1814–65)

Clemens, John Marshall: biography

as county judge

death

financial problems

as justice of the peace

marriage

religion

slaves owned or hired

Tennessee land

undemonstrative nature

Clemens, Langdon: birth and death

health

infant habits

Clemens, Margaret

Clemens, Mary Eleanor Stotts (Mrs. Orion Clemens)

Clemens, Olivia Louise Langdon (Livy): biography

birth of Clara Clemens

birth of Jean Clemens

birth and death of Langdon Clemens

birth and death of Susy Clemens

Clemens family plays and charades

courtship, engagement, and wedding

diary

as editor of SLC’s books

family history

father’s final illness

financial matters

health

illness and death

letters from

letters to

relationship with daughters

relationship with SLC

servants

SLC’s description

spelling ability

travel

Clemens, Olivia Susan (Susy): biography

birth

childhood and youth

Clemens family plays and charades

compared to Marjory Fleming

compassion for animals

illness and death

nicknames (Megalopis, Wee Wifie)

play
A Love-Chase

poem mis-attributed

relationship with Dr. Brown

relationship with mother

relationship with sisters

Sarah Bernhardt imitations

spelling ability

travel

visit to Grant with SLC

“What is it all for?” question

SUSY’S BIOGRAPHY OF SLC

Adventures of Huckle-berry Finn

Clemens family history

excerpts

Jervis Langdon

Langdon Clemens

Langdon family

The Prince and the Pauper

SLC and OLC’s first house

SLC and OLC’s first meeting

SLC and OLC’s marriage

SLC’s appearance

SLC’s childhood antics

SLC’s drinking and swearing

SLC’s early adulthood

SLC’s failures to comprehend

SLC’s gait

SLC’s love letters

SLC’s names for cats

SLC’s not going to church

trip to New York

trip to England and Scotland

Clemens, Orion: adventure in home of Dr. Meredith

Ben Franklin Book and Job Office (Keokuk)

biography

birth

buys Muscatine
Journal

law career

marriage

middle-of-night visit to young lady

personality

as printer’s apprentice in St. Louis

relationship with Bates

requests permission to publish anecdotes about SLC’s childhood

as secretary of Nevada Territory

starts Hannibal
Western Union
and then buys Hannibal
Journal

Tennessee land

writes autobiography

Clemens, Pamela.
See
Moffett, Pamela A. Moffett

Clemens, Pleasant Hannibal

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain): appearance

birth

chronology of life

Civil War service

death

Freemasonry

health

Oxford degree

seventieth birthday dinner

University of Missouri degree

ATTITUDES AND HABITS
: churchgoing

compliments

dinner table behavior

dueling

eating and drinking

exercise

grammar, punctuation, and spelling

laziness

lying

Presbyterian conscience

sleeping

swearing

tobacco use

writing speed

BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL MATTERS
: American Plasmon Company

bankruptcy and hardship

business ability

employment stratagem

Paige electromagnetic motor

Paige printing telegraph

Paige typesetting machine

Tennessee land.
See also
American Publishing Company; Charles L. Webster and Company; Harper and Brothers; Osgood, James Ripley

CHILDHOOD
: earliest recollections

education and schoolmates

left behind by family

misadventures

relationship with mother

summers at Quarles farm

sweethearts.
See also
Florida, Mo.; Hannibal, Mo.

COURTSHIP, ENGAGEMENT, AND MARRIAGE

FAMILY
: ancestry and genealogy.
See also
individual Clemens, Crane, Lampton, Langdon, Moffett, Quarles, and Webster family members

JOURNALISM

The Back Number

Buffalo
Express

Californian

Chicago
Republican

criticism of newspapers

Golden Era

Hannibal
Journal and Western Union

Hannibal
Western Union

Newspaper Correspondence Syndicate

New York
Herald

New York
Saturday Press

New York
Sunday Mercury

New York
Tribune

Sacramento
Union

San Francisco
Alta California

San Francisco
Morning Call

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