by Mark Twain
works on Grant’s memoirs
writes military history of Grant
Badeni, Kasimir Felix
Barnard, Henry
Barnard College
Barnes, Benjamin F.
Barnes, George Eustace
Barrett, Lawrence
Bates, Edward
Batterson, James G.
Bayard the Spotless (Pierre du Terrail)
Bay State Gas Company
Beatty, Jean Burlingame (Mrs. Robert Chetwood Beatty)
“Beauties of the German Language,”
Beck, Henry
Beecher, Henry Ward
SLC’s letters to
Beecher, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K.
Belgium
Ben Franklin Book and Job Office
Bermingham, Ellen (Nellie)
Bermuda
Bernhardt, Sarah
Berry, Mrs.
Bierce, Ambrose
“Big Bonanza” silver strike
Billings, Josh. See Shaw, Henry Wheeler
Bishop, William Henry
Bispham, William
Bixby, Horace E.
Black, William
Blackstone, William
Blaine, James G.. See also Cleveland-Blaine election
Blankenship, Tom
Blind, associations for. See also Keller, Helen
Bliss, Elisha P., Jr.
Bliss, Francis
Bok, Edward
Bolton, William Compton
Bonaparte, Catherine, Princess
Bonaparte, Jérôme
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Booth, Edwin
Booth, John Wilkes
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Boston Lyceum Bureau. See Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Boston Massacre
Boston Saturday Evening Gazette
Boston Sunday Post
Boutwell, George S.
Bowen, Barton Stone
Bowen, Samuel Adams, Jr.
Bowen, William
Briggs, Artemissa (Mrs. William J. Marsh)
Briggs, Emily Edson
Briggs, John B.
Brookline Gas Company
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooks, Noah
Brooks, Preston S. (“Potter”)
Brown, Anna Marsh (Mrs. Talmage Brown)
Brown, Alex
Brown, Isabella Cranston
Brown, Jake
Brown, John (abolitionist)
Brown, John (Dr.)
letters from
letters to
“Rab and His Friends,”
relationship with Susy Clemens
SLC’s regret about not making last visit
Brown, John (Jock)
Brown, John Taylor
Brown, Mr. (steamboat pilot)
Brown, Owen
Brown, Talmage
Brown, William
Browning, Robert
Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
Buckly, Mr.
Buell, Dwight H.
Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Courier
Grover Cleveland as mayor and sheriff
SLC and OLC’s difficult year
SLC and OLC’s first home after marriage
Buffalo Express
SLC’s eulogy of Burlingame
Buffum, Arnold
Burglar alarm: Goodwin’s
SLC’s
Bunce, Edward M.
Burk, George
Burlingame, Anson
Burlingame, Edward L.
Burns, Anthony
Burns, Robert
Burton, Nathaniel J.
Bushnell, Horace
Butler, Andrew Jackson
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
Butler, George H.
Butters, Henry A.
Bynner, Witter
Cable, George Washington
lecture tour with SLC
visit to Governor Cleveland with SLC
Cadets of Temperance
Caesar, Julius
Caldwell, Samuel L.
California: SLC’s lecture tours
SLC’s trip to Jackass Hill and Angels Camp. See also Sacramento Union; San Francisco
Californian (periodical)
“A Call with W. D. Howells on General Grant,”
Campbell, Alexander
Campbell, Thomas
Campbell, William Wilfred
Carnegie, Andrew
Carroll, Lewis. See Charles L. Dodgson
Carryl, Charles E.
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo
Case, Newton
Cash, Mr. (New York Herald employee)
Cauchon, Pierre
Cavallotti, Felice Carlo Emmanuele
Cellini, Benvenuto
Century Company: employment of Hobby and Paine
negotiations to publish Grant’s memoirs
Century Magazine
Noah Brooks’s biographical sketch of SLC
publication of Grant’s war articles
publication of SLC’s writings
Ceylon
Chaffee, Fannie Josephine
Chaffee, Jerome B.
Chamberlaine, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus P.
Chapman, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jesse Grant)
Chapman, Rawley
Chapman, Rosamond Hart
“The Character of Man” manuscript
Charles I (king of England)
Charles II (king of England)
Charles L. Webster and Company: failure
publication of Grant’s memoirs
publication of McClellan’s Own Story
publication of Sheridan’s Personal Memoirs
publication of SLC’s books. See also Webster, Charles L.
Charlotte (servant)
Chaykovsky, Nikolai Vasilievich
Cheney, Frank Woodbridge
Cheney, Mary Bushnell
“The Chicago G. A. R. Festival,”
Chicago Republican: SLC as Washington, D.C., correspondent
Childs, George W.
China: Grant’s concern for students
political unrest (1906)
Chin Lan Pin (“Wong”)
Choate, Joseph H.
Chowning, Thomas Jefferson
The Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Clark, Charles Hopkins
Clemens, Benjamin: birth and death
Clemens, Clara Langdon (Bay)
biography
birth
childhood and youth
Clemens family plays and charades
collaboration with Paine
death of mother
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
trave
l
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
