Autobiography of Mark Twain (186 page)

seventieth birthday dinner

South Africa

speeches November 1905–April 1906

spelling bee

technique at social banquets

tour with Cable

Tuskegee Institute

Twentieth Century Club

Vassar College

Vienna

Washington, D.C.

Westside Y.M.C.A. (Majestic Theatre)

“whistling story,”

Whittier birthday dinner

world tour

MINER

MISSISSIPPI RIVER PILOT

PSEUDONYM

SENATORIAL SECRETARY

TRAVEL
.
See also
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,
LECTURES AND SPEECHES
, world tour

Quaker City
excursion

and individual place names

TYPESETTER AND PRINTER

WORKS
: “Aguinaldo” (book review)

Ah Sin

The American Claimant

“Anson Burlingame,”

“Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,”

“At the Appetite-Cure,”

autobiographical notes (1899)

“An Autobiography,”

“Autobiography of a Damned Fool,”

“Boy’s Manuscript,”

“Captain Montgomery,”

“Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,”

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches

Christian Science

“Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy,”

“Closing Words of My Autobiography,”

Collected Works editions

Colonel Sellers
(
Gilded Age
play)

“Concerning Copyright,”

“Concerning the Jews,”

“Conversations with Satan,”

“The Countess Massiglia,”

“A Defence of General Funston,”

“Doings in Nevada,”

“Dueling,”

“An Encounter with an Interviewer,”

“English as She Is Taught,”

Europe and Elsewhere

“The Facts in the Case of George Fisher, Deceased,”

“The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract,”

“Fortifications of Paris,”

“Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat,”

“From Chapter XVII,”

“A Gallant Fireman,”

“General Washington’s Negro Body-Servant,”

“Hellfire Hotchkiss,”

“Henry H. Rogers
(Continued)
,”

“A Horse’s Tale,”

“How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel,”

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

“Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians,”

“Huck Finn” (1902 fragment)

“The Innocents Adrift” (“Down the Rhone”)

“Interview with Gen. Grant,”

“Jane Lampton Clemens,”

“Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,”

“Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats,”

“Josh” letters

“Jul’us Caesar,”

King Leopold’s Soliloquy

“The Late Benjamin Franklin,”

“Macfarlane,”

“The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm,”

“Major General Wood, M.D.,”

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays

“Marjorie Fleming, the Wonder Child,”

Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography

Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old

“The Memorable Assassination,”

“Memorial to Susy,”

“Mental Telegraphy,”

“Mental Telegraphy Again,”

More Tramps Abroad

My Début as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories

“My First Lie and How I Got Out of It,”

“My Platonic Sweetheart,”

“New Huck Finn,”

“No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger,”

“Old Times on the Mississippi,”

“On the Decay of the Art of Lying,”

Personal Re-collections of Joan of Arc

“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed,”

“A Record of the Small Foolishnesses of Susie & ‘Bay’ Clemens (Infants),”

“Riley—Newspaper Correspondent,”

“‘Russian Liberty Has Had Its Last Chance’” (“The Treaty of Portsmouth”)

“Schoolhouse Hill,”

South African diamond mine book (proposed)

The Stolen White Elephant, Etc
.

“St. Petersburg Fragment,”

Tom Sawyer Abroad

“Tom Sawyer, Detective,”

“Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy,”

“To My Missionary Critics,”

“To the Person Sitting in Darkness,”

“To the Rev. S. C. Thompson,”

The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

“Travel-Scraps II,”

A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime

“A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It,”

“A Trying Situation,”

“The Turning Point of My Life,”

“Two Little Tales,”

“Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain,”

“Villagers of 1840”3,”

“Wapping Alice” (“English Mary”)

“The War-Prayer,”

What Is Man?
.
See also Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; Following the Equator; The Gilded Age; The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; “The Mysterious Stranger” manuscripts; The Prince and the Pauper; Roughing It; A Tramp Abroad

Clemens, Sherrard

Clements, Gregory (“Geoffrey”)

Clements, Richard

Clements, Robert

Cleveland, Frances Folsom (Mrs. Grover Cleveland)

Cleveland, Grover

Authors’ Reading reception

letters honoring birthday

as mayor and sheriff of Buffalo

response to SLC’s letter to daughter Ruth

SLC’s plea for Mason

visit of SLC and Cable when governor.
See also
Cleveland-Blaine election

Cleveland, Ruth (“Baby Ruth”)

Cleveland-Blaine election and “mugwumps,”

Cleveland
Leader

“Closing Words of My Autobiography,”

Clough, Frederick

Coit, Robert

Collier’s Weekly

Colonel Sellers
(
Gilded Age
play)

Colt, Elizabeth Jarvis (Mrs. Samuel Colt)

Colt, Samuel

Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company

“Comment on Tautology and Grammar,”

Confessions
(Rousseau)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Consolidated Virginia Mine

Copyright: dispute over
Quaker City
letters

saved when Webster and Company failed

SLC’s scheme to extend

Cord, Mary Ann (Auntie)

Cornell University

Cosimo I

Cosmopolitan
(periodical)

Cox, James

Crane, Susan Langdon (Mrs. Theodore Crane; Aunt Susy)

father’s final illness

inherits Quarry Farm

spelling ability.
See also
Quarry Farm

Crane, Theodore

Creswell, John A. J.

The Critic
(periodical)

The Critic
(play)

Croker, Eyre Coote

Croker, Richard

Cunningham, Dr.

Cutler, Ellen (Mrs. William K. Cutler)

Cutler, William K.

Daggett, Rollin M.

Daly, Augustin

Daly, Joseph F.

Daniel (Uncle Dan’l, slave)

Dante

Davis, Charles E.

Dawson, John D.

Dawson’s school

Dawson, Noble E.

De Cordova, Raphael

Democratic Party

Jeremiah and Sherrard Clemens

Morris incident

SLC’s opposition to Tilden.

See also
Cleveland-Blaine election

Dennison, William

Depew, Chauncey M.

De Quille, Dan.
See
Wright, William H.

Derby, George Horatio (“Squibob”; “John Phoenix”)

Devens, Charles

DeVoto, Bernard.
See Mark Twain in Eruption

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Dick, William Brisbane

Dick and Fitzgerald

Dickens, Charles

Dickinson, Anna

Dilke, Charles Wentworth

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Doctors