Mark Twain - The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

by Jerome Loving

  9. MTHHR, 651, 657, 648.

  10. Mark Twain, “The Death of Jean,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 122 (January 1911), 210–15; Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy, 255, 258, 249.

  11. Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, ed. Bernard De Voto (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 7.

  12. Mark Twain, 1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead? (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 20–21. He wrote Jean on March 3, 1909 (MTP), that he was “having a good time all by myself dictating to the stenographer (Autobiography) a long day-after-day scoff at everybody who is ignorant enough & stupid enough to go on believing Shakespeare ever wrote a play or a poem in his life.”

  13. Twain, Letters from the Earth, 40.

  14. MT to William R. Coe, June 27, 1909 (Mark Twain House, Hartford, CT); MT to Clara L. Clemens, February 21 (MTP) and April 21, 1910 (University of Virginia Library).

  15. Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, Mark Twain’s Clara (Evanston, IL: Press of Ward Schori, 1982), 147; Andrew Hoffman, Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (New York: William Morrow, 1997), 503.

  16. Clara Clemens, My Husband Gabrilowitsch (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938), 31, 84, 173, 190, 193.

  17. In his extreme loneliness, Clemens cultivated, beginning in 1908, a relationship with a number of girls between the ages of ten and fifteen whom he dubbed his “Angel-fish.” They formed his “Aquarium” or club. These girls were often invited to stay with Clemens and Isabel Lyon for a week or more. Their mothers were fully informed of their visits and assured (and granted) proper supervision for their daughters during the visits. The club began with five or six young people and eventually reached the number of twelve. In several letters, Clemens shared his delight with these young people with both his daughters, and the Aquarium became so popular with those in the writer’s New York social circle that even adult women pretended to want to become members. In a letter to Dorothy Quick, one of the earliest Angel-fish, he told her that the wife of dramatist Daniel Frohman “has been trying to get into our Aquarium, & I wouldn’t let her.... She was dressed for 12 years, & had pink ribbons at the back of her neck & looked about 14 years old; so I admitted her as an angel-fish. . . . There are lots of lady candidates.” (MT to Dorothy Quick, May 12, 1908 [MTP]). See also Dorothy Quick, Mark Twain & Me (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961); and Barbara Schmidt, “Mark Twain’s Angel-fish and Other Young Women of Interest” (www.twainquotes.com/angelfish/angelfish.html).

  18. MT to Clara L. Clemens, April 21, 1910 (University of Virginia Library); and “Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch, 55, Twain’s Last Direct Heir, Dies,” New York Times, January 19, 1966.

  19. James M. Cox, Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966).

  Index

  Works by Twain appear at the end of the index.

  Ade, George, 109

  Aldrich, Lilian, 183–84, 262

  Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 26, 170, 183–84, 216, 351, 417–18

  The Story of a Bad Boy, 170, 183, 216

  Aments, Joseph P., 36

  American Plasmon Company, 407, 412, 418, 423

  American Publisher, 173

  American Publishing Company, 143, 147, 156, 166, 169, 182, 209, 216, 220, 231, 249, 286, 289, 292–93, 296, 322, 324, 354, 384, 390

  buy-out by Harper’s Publishing Company, 390

  uniform edition of Twain’s works, 354–55, 390

  Amherst Record, 176

  Amherst Student, 176

  Andrews, Evangeline Walker, 313

  Andrews, Kenneth R., 181

  Arabian Nights, 39

  Archbold, John D., 338

  Arnold, Matthew, 285, 300, 306, 310

  Arp, Bill, 266

  Artemus Ward: His Travels, 107

  Ashcroft, Ralph, 423–24

  Atlanta Constitution, 257

  Atlantic Monthly, 28, 55, 165, 168, 182–84, 198, 204, 210–12, 214, 220, 221–25, 232, 233, 244, 251, 259, 267

  Austen, Jane, 201

  Badeau, Adam, 291

  Baetzhold, Howard, 301

  Bailey, James M. See Danbury News Man Baldwin, Joseph G., 36

  Ballarat (Australia) Courier, 361

  Balzac, Honoré de, 253

  Droll Stories, 253

  “The Venial Sin,” 253

  Barnes, George E., 101

  Barnum, P. T., 260, 321

  Barth, John, 425

  Bates, Allan, 55, 59

  Bates, Edward, 30–31

  Beach, Emily (Emma), 140, 151

  Beach, Moses, 135–36, 140

  Beard, Daniel Carter, 298, 309

  Beauregard, Pierre Gustave, 69

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 131–32, 135, 150, 154, 158, 180, 182

  Beecher, Isabella, 166

  Beecher, Thomas K., 158, 165, 168

  “The Duty of Using One’s Life for Others,” 158

  Belford Brothers of Toronto, 220

  Bell, C. F. Moberly, 393

  Bell, John, 68

  Bellamy, Edward, 304

  Looking Backward, 304–5

  Benjamin, William Evarts, 339

  Berry, Mrs. Thomas S., 150

  Bierce, Ambrose, 101, 198

  Bigler, John, 82

  Billings, Josh, 109, 266–67

  Bishop, William Henry, 225–26

  Detmold, 225

  Bissell, Richard M., 406

  Bixby, Horace, 54–57, 59–61, 65–66, 257–58

  Blair, Walter, 35, 266

  Blankenship, Bence, 24

  Blankenship, Tom, 24, 218, 281

  Bliss, Elisha, 143, 147, 153, 156, 159, 162, 166, 171–72, 185, 188–89, 195, 249, 286

  Bliss, Francis E., 286, 324, 384, 390

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, 352

  Booth, Edwin, 181

  Boston Carpet-Bag, 38

  Boston Evening Post, 226, 252–53

  Boston Globe, 226, 228

  Boston Herald, 294

  Boston Transcript, 226

  Bowen, Bart, 60–61

  Bowen, Sam, 59–60, 68

  Bowen, Will, 22, 24, 26, 66, 116, 168, 214

  Bowles, Samuel, 160

  Branch, Edgar Marquess, 36, 64

  Brooks, Noah, 76

  Brooks, Van Wyck, 89, 142, 181

  Brown, John, 49, 164

  Brown, William, 59, 62–63, 65

  Browne, Charles Farrar. See Ward, Artemus

  Brownell, Louise, 313, 331–33, 335–36, 351–52, 369

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 332

  Aurora Leigh, 332

  Bryant, William Cullen, 233–34

  Bucke, Richard Maurice, 81

  Buell, Dwight, 274

  Buffalo Daily Courier, 233

  Buffalo Express, 26, 160–61, 164–72, 176, 189, 190, 286, 341

  Bunker, Benjamin, 84

  Burdette, Robert Jones, 109

  Burlingame, Anson, 113, 115–16, 118, 122, 188

  Burlingame, Edward, 116

  Burnside, General Ambrose, 162, 217

  Burroughs, John, 164

  Burton, Mary Hooker, 182

  Byron, Lord, 49, 95, 165, 349

  Cable, George Washington, 202, 257–58, 261–65, 267, 289–90, 293, 299, 349, 351, 357

  Dr. Sevier, 262–63

  The Grandissimes, 257–58

  Old Creole Days, 257

  Calhoun, John C., 49

  Californian, 100–2, 104–6, 110, 129, 169

  Carlyle, Thomas, 306–7

  Carnegie, Andrew, 292, 337, 343

  Carson, Kit, 79

  Century Magazine, 54, 69, 71–72, 263, 289–90, 292, 324, 343–44

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 252

  Charles L. Webster & Company, 271–72, 274–76, 278, 291, 293–96, 298, 300, 307, 309, 318, 324, 335, 338, 344, 357

  bankruptcy, 296, 343–44, 354

  Chatto and Windus, 220, 319, 354, 372

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 252

  Chicago Evening Post, 221

  Chicago Times-Herald, 353

  Chicago Tribu
ne, 174, 203

  Childs, Marquis, 55

  Chopin, Kate, 111

  The Awakening, 111

  Church, Frederick, 131

  Clagett, William E., 83–85, 94

  Clapp, Henry, 2, 106–7, 130

  Clay, Henry, 49

  Clemens, Benjamin, 13, 28

  Clemens, Clara. See Samossoud, Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch

  Clemens, Cyril, 373

  Clemens, Henry, 13, 16, 21, 23, 29, 34, 37, 47, 50

  death, 46, 62–66, 110, 177, 258

  Clemens, James R., 373

  Clemens, Jane Lampton (mother), 1, 3, 12, 14, 29, 145, 149, 232, 395

  Clemens, Jean, 186, 251, 319, 357, 363–65, 367, 380, 310, 413, 419, 422

  death, 426–27

  epilepsy, 314, 318, 373, 381, 391–92, 395, 398, 405, 408–9, 418, 423

  Clemens, Jenny, 50, 95

  Clemens, John Marshall (father), 11–12, 14–15, 18, 20–21, 23–25, 28, 277, 284

  death, 28–29

  Clemens, Langdon, 169–71, 173, 177, 421

  Clemens, Margaret Lampton, 13, 21, 28

  Clemens, Mollie, 50–51, 62, 80, 83, 91, 95–96, 106, 115, 153, 311, 371, 386, 417

  Clemens, Olivia Louise (Livy) Langdon, 25, 138, 146, 149–53, 157–58, 160, 162–63, 167–69, 172–73, 175–77, 181, 185–86, 195, 197, 199, 220, 228, 233, 235, 240, 244, 264, 267, 273–74, 276, 281, 313–14, 316–17, 324, 335, 339, 342–46, 351, 353–56, 358–59, 365, 368, 371, 373, 380, 403, 405, 407, 411, 417, 427

  death, 417–18, 421–22

  disapproval of attack on missionaries, 400–1

  loss of conventional religious belief, 159, 175

  medical problems, 149, 170–71, 312, 318, 339–40, 343, 396, 408–11, 413, 416

  Clemens, Olivia Susan (Susy), 6–7, 175, 186–87, 197, 241, 291–92, 299, 319–20, 334–36, 351–52, 357, 363–64, 368, 378

  biography of Mark Twain, 187, 368–70

  Bryn Mawr, 313–14, 331–33, 369–70

  death, 18, 360, 365–74, 377, 392, 409, 417–18, 421, 423, 427

  medical problems, 318, 343, 353, 396

  Clemens, Orion, 1–2, 5, 13, 29–41, 44–48, 50–52, 58, 62, 68, 74–77, 79–80, 82, 85, 90–91, 94–95, 98, 106, 115, 135, 146, 148, 172–73, 175, 195, 203, 232–33, 259, 271, 277, 307, 311, 317, 326, 335, 344, 354, 371–72, 384, 394, 417

  basis of fiction, 235, 425

  death, 383, 386, 389

  political office in Nevada Territory, 33, 71, 94–95, 341

  Clemens, Pamela Ann. See Moffett, Pamela Ann

  Clemens, Pleasant Hannibal, 13

  Clemens, Samuel B. (grandfather), 11

  Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: anti-imperialism, 362, 392–93, 400–2

  autobiography, 397, 425

  Bible, 155–56, 245

  boxing, 339–40

  Catholic Church, 297–98, 302

  Christian Science, 396, 426

  Civil War, 67–73

  Code, Duello, 97–98

  death, 429

  early fiction, 35–43

  English aristocracy, 196, 199, 300

  first public speech, 51–52

  the French, 170, 240–42

  Hawaii, 110–17

  honorary degrees, 310, 403, 407, 423

  insanity plea, 167–68, 190

  inventions, 195, 232, 273

  investments, 418

  jury system, 167, 190

  lecture tours, 173–77, 202, 262–64, 289, 349, 356–64

  as “Mark Twain,” 60, 91

  Michelangelo, 143

  miscegenation hoax, 96–99

  Mormons, 77–78

  Native Americans, 75, 78–79

  pessimism, 360, 417, 426

  piloting, 55–61, 66

  race, 47–48, 51, 68, 280–82, 284, 324–25, 363

  slavery, 16–17, 113–14, 362

  uniform edition of works, 354–55, 390

  wedding, 168. See also “Works by Mark Twain” at end of index

  Clemens, Will M., 394–95

  “Homes of Mark Twain,” 394

  Mark Twain: His Life and Work, 394

  “The Mark Twain Story Book,” 394

  Cleveland Herald, 138, 146, 160

  Collier’s Weekly, 342, 426

  Collins, Wilkie, 346

  Colt Fire Arms Manufactory, 273

  Comstock, Henry Tompkins Paige, 81

  Conard, Lou, 153

  Constitutional Party, 68

  Conway, Moncure, 196, 220

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 7, 78–79, 201–2, 345–51

  The Deerslayer, 345, 347–48

  The Pathfinder, 347–48

  The Pioneers, 347–48

  The Prairie, 347

  Precaution, 201

  The Spy, 201

  Corbett, “Gentleman Jim,” 340

  Cord, Mary Ann, 209

  Cosmopolitan, 341–42, 396

  Cox, James M., 298, 431

  Crane, Stephen, 399

  Maggie, Girl of the Streets, 399

  Crane, Susan L., 168–69, 187, 311, 316, 318–19, 334, 336, 338, 357, 417, 419

  Crane, Theodore W., 187, 311, 313

  Critic, 295, 350

  Cutter, Bloodgood Haviland, 139, 142

  Daggett, Rollin M., 88, 276

  The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, 276

  Daly, Augustan, 318

  Danbury (Connecticut) News, 176

  Danbury News Man, 109, 267

  Darwin, Charles, 108, 244–45

  The Descent of Man, 245

  Origin of Species, 245

  Dawson, John D., 25

  Denny, Colonel William R., 139

  Densmore, Gilbert B., 204–7, 210

  De Quille, Dan, 88, 90–92, 95–97

  Derby, George Horatio, 106, 109, 234

  De Voto, Bernard, 3, 96, 218, 224, 272

  Mark Twain in Eruption, 272

  Dickens, Charles, 150

  David Copperfield, 150

  Dickinson, Anna E., 164

  Dickinson, Emily, 154, 160, 177

  Dixon, Thomas, 323

  The Clansman, 323

  Dodge, Mary Mapes, 334

  Dolby, George, 198–99

  Dolmetsch, Carl, 377

  Doubleday, Frank, 400

  Douglass, Frederick, 138, 217, 282

  Dowden, Edward, 333, 349

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 403

  The Hound of the Baskervilles, 403

  Dreiser, Theodore, 7, 79, 178, 323–24, 330, 337–38, 343, 382, 397, 399–400, 428

  The Financier, 337

  “Nigger Jeff,” 323–24

  Sister Carrie, 7, 111, 330, 399–400, 428

  Dryden, John, 349

  Duncan, Charles C., 131–32, 286

  Dunne, Finley Peter, 267

  Eddy, Mary Baker, 396, 426

  Edison, Thomas, 119, 179, 251

  Edward VII, King, 221, 298

  Eggleston, Edward, 267

  Eliot, T. S., 213

  The Four Quartets, 213

  Emerson, Edward, 228, 255

  Emerson in Concord, 228

  Emerson, Ellen, 228

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3, 7, 26, 111, 118, 133, 141, 177, 190, 221–23, 225–30, 233, 241, 249, 254–55, 354, 360, 371

  “Circles,” 360

  “The Comic,” 3, 228, 371

  “Divinity School Address,” 133, 225, 254

  “Experience,” 360

  “Napoleon: The Man of the World,” 133

  Nature, 254

  Representative Men, 133

  “Terminus,” 133

  Everett, Edward, 68

  Fairbanks, Abel, 138, 146, 155, 160

  Fairbanks, Mary Mason, 116, 138, 142, 148–49, 154, 156–58, 160, 168, 176, 187, 195, 227, 229, 250, 299, 331–32, 419

  Fanning, Philip Ashley, 33

  Farnham Typesetter Company, 270

  Fatout, Paul, 118

  Faude, Wilson H., 181

  Faulkner, William, 96

  Ferguso
n, De Lancey, 15, 183

  Fern, Fanny. See Parton, Sara

  Field, Eugene, 267

  Fields, James T., 182

  Finn, Jimmy, 24, 168

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 96

  Ford, Darius R., 166

  Franklin, Benjamin, 30, 35, 40, 46–47, 49, 51

  “Silence Dogood,” 35

  Frazer, Laura Hawkins. See Hawkins, Laura

  Fredonia Watch Company, 271

  Freud, Sigmund, 385

  Civilization and Its Discontents, 385

  Interpretation of Dreams, 385

  Frohman, Daniel, 311

  Frost, A. B., 18

  Fry, J. C., 52

  Fuller, Frank, 77, 134, 147, 373

  Gabrilowitsch, Nina Clemens, 430–31

  Gabrilowitsch, Ossip, 378, 408, 427

  Galaxy, 40, 42, 62, 164, 166–70, 172, 189

  Galton, Francis, 320

  Fingerprints, 320

  Garland, Hamlin, 312

  Main-Travelled Roads, 312

  Garth, John, 22

  George, Henry, 307

  Progress and Poverty, 307

  Gerber, John, 218

  Gerhardt, Karl, 275, 280, 290

  Gibson, William, 139

  Gilder, Jeannette, 294

  Gilder, Joseph, 294

  Gilder, Richard Watson, 289, 294, 345, 421

  Gillette, William Hooker, 119, 179–81

  Gillis, Jim, 88, 102

  Gillis, Bill, 88, 101

  Gillis, Steve, 88, 98, 101–2

  Glyn, Elinor, 402

  Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 333

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 233

  Faust, 233

  Goggin, Pamela, 11

  Golden Era, 95, 101–2, 204

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 103

  Goodman, Joseph T., 88, 91, 93, 95, 98, 100, 145, 173, 408

  Gould, Jay, 298

  Grant, Buck. See Grant, Ulysses S Jr.

  Grant, Frederick D., 290, 293

  Grant, Jesse, 275

  Grant, Julia Dent, 292

  Grant, Ulysses S, 68, 70–71, 73–75, 83, 105, 203, 217, 224, 245, 260, 271–73, 285, 290–95, 312

  Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, 70, 73, 271–73, 275, 285, 294–95, 343

  Grant, Ulysses S Jr., 291

  Gray, David, 265

  Greeley, Horace, 204

  Greer, Frederick H., 139

  Griffin, George, 187, 286

  Grimes, Absalom, 68

  Grosh, Eathan Allen, 81

  Grosh, Hosea Ballou, 81

  Guthrie, James B., 258

  Hall, Fred A., 275–76, 318–21, 324, 334–35, 343–44, 359–60

  Hancock, Simon, 11

  Hannibal Tri-Weekly Messenger, 40

  Harlan, James, 148

  Harper, J. Henry, 321, 340