Autobiography of Mark Twain (190 page)

Nevada Territory: “Big Bonanza” silver strike

dueling in

scheme for Higbie to get job in mine

SLC as miner.
See also
Virginia City
Territorial Enterprise

New England Gas and Coke Company

Newman, John Philip

New Orleans: SLC seeks ship for South America

SLC stays after fight with Brown

SLC’s 1882 visit

Newton, James Rogers

New York
Daily Graphic

New York
Evening Post

New York
Evening Sun

New York
Globe and Commercial Advertiser

New York
Herald:
Badeau

Higbie’s account of earlier association with SLC

SLC as Washington, D.C. correspondent

SLC’s letters about
Quaker City
excursion

New York
Saturday Press

New York
Sunday Mercury

New York
Times

covers “Big Bonanza” silver strike

Duncan’s lawsuit

review of autobiography chapters in
North American Review

New York
Tribune:
Badeau

Field

Greeley

Hay

Keeler

Reid

SLC as Washington, D.C., correspondent

SLC’s letters about
Quaker City
excursion

Winter

Young

New York
World:

Grant’s memoirs

Moffett as editorial writer

New Zealand

Nicholas I (tsar of Russia)

Nicholas II (tsar of Russia)

Nicolay, John G.

Nigra, Constantino

North, Charles R.

North, John W.

North American Review
(NAR): Harvey as editor

Munro as editor

publication of autobiography chapters

Norton, Charles Eliot

“Notes on ‘Innocents Abroad,’ ”

Noyes, Edward Follansbee

Nye, Edgar Wilson (Bill)

Nye, Emma

Nye, John

O’Brien, William Shoney

Oettel, Walter

Ogden, Robert C.

O’Hagan, Joseph

O’Neil, Ellen

O’Neil, John

O’Reilly, John Boyle

Orton, Arthur

Osgood, James Ripley

Owsley, Anna B. (Nannie)

Owsley, William Perry

Page, Thomas Nelson

Paige, James W.: electromagnetic motor

printing telegraph

typesetting machine

Paine, Albert Bigelow

at autobiographical dictation sessions

handwriting on typescripts

role in inception of autobiography.
See also Mark Twain’s Autobiography (MTA); Mark Twain: A Biography (MTB)

Palmer, Albert M.

Panama Canal

Parker, Edwin Pond

Parkhurst, Charles Henry

Parr, Thomas

Parsons, William

Paul Jones
(steamboat)

Pavey, Jesse H.

Paxton, Frances.
See
Massiglia, Countess

Pearson’s Magazine

Pennsylvania
(steamboat)

Pepys, Samuel

Perkins, Charles E.

Perry Davis’s Pain-Killer

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant:
American Publishing Company as potential publisher

Badeau’s work on

competition between Century Company and SLC to publish

Grant dictates

Grant reluctant to write

royalties

Petöfi, Sándor

Peyton, Thomas F.

Phelps, Roswell H.

Phelps, William Walter

Philadelphia, Penn.: SLC works as typesetter

Philadelphia
Inquirer

Philadelphia
Press

Philadelphia
Public Ledger

Philippines: Funston’s capture of Aguinaldo

tariff bill

U.S. massacre of Moros

Phillips, Horatio

Phillips, Wendell

Phoenix, John.
See
Derby, George Horatio (“Squibob”)

Picquart, Georges

Players club: dinner honoring SLC

founding

SLC’s membership

Plunkett, J. R. (Joe)

Plymouth Church (Brooklyn).
See also
Beecher, Henry Ward

Pomeroy, Frederick William

Pond, James B.

Porter, Fitz-John

Porter, Horace

Postal system (U.S.)

Potter.
See
Brooks, Preston S.

Powlison, Charles F.

Practical Jokes with Artemus Ward

Pratt and Whitney Company

“Preface. As from the Grave,”

Presbyterianism.
See
Religion

Prime, William C.

The Prince and the Pauper

Clemens family children’s play

publication of

Susy Clemens on

Proctor, Richard A.

Quaker City
excursion

dispute over rights to SLC’s letters

SLC’s letters about.
See also The Innocents Abroad

Quarles, Benjamin L.

Quarles, James A.

Quarles, John Adams.
See also
Quarles farm

Quarles, Martha Ann Lampton (Mrs. John Adams Quarles; Aunt Patsy)

Quarles, William Frederick (Fred)

Quarles farm:

SLC’s childhood summers

SLC’s use in fiction

Quarry Farm: Clemens family at

Olivia Clemens buried at

as residence of Cranes

“Rab and His Friends” (Brown)

“Ralph Keeler,”

“Random Extracts.”
See
“My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It]”

Ranzoni, Daniele

Raphael

Raybaudi-Massiglia, Annibale

Raymond, John T.

Reade, Charles

Redpath, James: definition of artist

as founder of lecture agency

as SLC’s stenographer.
See also
Redpath Lyceum Bureau

Redpath Lyceum Bureau

“Reflections on a Letter and a Book,”

Reid, Robert

Reid, Whitelaw

Religion: Catholic funerals

Langdon family

Orion Clemens

Presbyterianism: SLC’s churchgoing

SLC’s Presbyterian conscience

Susy Clemens’s “What is it all for?” question

Republican Party

Grant

insurance scandal

Mason’s diplomatic appointment

Morris incident

Philippines and U.S. massacre of Moros

politicians and candidates

SLC supports Hawley

SLC supports Hayes.
See also
Cleveland, Grover

Cleveland-Blaine election

Roosevelt, Theodore

“The Rev. Dr. Newman,”

Richardson, Abby Sage

Richardson, Elisha A.

Richardson, Mary L. RoBards (Mrs. Elisha A. Richardson)

Richardson, Sara Ellen

Richmond, Joshua

Riddle, Matthew Brown

Riley, John Henry

Rising, Franklin S.

Riverdale, N.Y.

Robards, Amanda Carpenter

Robards, Archibald S.

Robards, George C.

Robards (RoBards), John Lewis

Robards, Sarah H. (Sally; “Mary Wilson”)

Robbia, Luca della

Robert Fulton Memorial Association

“Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Bailey Aldrich,”

Roberts, James B.

Roberts, W. H.

Robinson, Henry C.

Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

Rockefeller, John D., Sr.

Rockefeller, William

Rogers, Henry Huttleston: “Henry H. Rogers,”

lawsuits

letters from

letters to

Paige typesetting machine

as SLC’s financial advisor and agent

visit to Helen Keller

yacht (
Kanawha
)

Rogers, Mary

Roosevelt, Alice Lee

Roosevelt, Theodore

character

death blow to Russian revolution

Gridiron Club dinner

mediates peace in Russo-Japanese War

military career