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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 1

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by Mark Twain


  Langdon, Andrew

  Langdon, Charles Jervis

  as business man

  dislikes Atwater

  as “General,”

  mother’s indulgence of

  Quaker City excursion

  wagon incident

  Langdon, Ida B. Clark (Mrs. Charles Jervis Langdon)

  Langdon, Jervis

  business interests

  buys house for newlywed Clemenses

  buys Quarry Farm

  illness and death

  offers to buy Tennessee land

  potential railway magnate

  SLC’s courtship of daughter Olivia

  Susy Clemens’s biography

  Langdon, Julie. See Loomis, Julie Olivia Langdon

  Langdon, Olivia Lewis (Mrs. Jervis Langdon)

  Langdon, Susan. See Crane, Susan Langdon

  Larkin, Henry W.

  “The Latest Attempt,”

  Lawrence, Joseph E.

  Lawson, Thomas W.

  League, William T.

  Lean, Cornelius

  Leary, Katy

  death of Susy Clemens

  “Lecture-Times,”

  Lee, Harvey (“Ferguson”)

  Lee, Robert E.

  Leopold II (king of Belgium)

  Levering, Clint

  Levin boys

  Life on the Mississippi

  Henry Clemens’s death

  Osgood as publisher

  praised by Wilhelm II

  prototype for Huck’s father

  SLC’s experiences as Mississippi River pilot

  SLC’s trip to gather material

  tramp’s death

  Li Hung Chang

  Lincoln, Abraham

  appoints Orion Clemens as favor to Bates

  assassination

  enjoys Nasby’s humor

  Hay as assistant and biographer

  Lindley, Caleb W.

  Lipton, Thomas

  Locke, David Ross (Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby)

  Logan, John A.

  Logan, Olive

  London: Clemens family 1873 residence

  Clemens family 1879 visit

  Clemens family 1896–97 residence

  Clemens family 1899–1900 residence

  “Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats” plagiarized

  Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

  SLC’s 1872 residence

  London Times

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Memorial Association readings

  Whittier birthday dinner

  Longworth, Nicholas (horticulturist)

  Longworth, Nicholas (congressman)

  Loomis, Edward Eugene

  Loomis, Julie Olivia Langdon (Mrs. Edward Eugene Loomis)

  Lord, Mrs. Herbert

  Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal

  A Love-Chase (play by Susy Clemens)

  Lovell, Gilbert A.

  Lowell, James Russell

  Lyon, Isabel V.

  on death of Malone

  friend of Thayers in Dublin, N.H.

  hired and fired

  in Italy with Clemens family

  marriage to Ashcroft

  notes on Paine’s edition of autobiography

  previous acquaintance with Countess Massiglia

  publication of autobiography excerpts in North American Review

  records SLC’s Florentine dictations

  SLC and Bible class of Rockefeller, Jr.

  SLC and Players club

  SLC’s description of Roosevelt

  SLC’s dictation practices and Hobby

  SLC’s reading of “Random Extracts” typescript

  SLC’s Y.M.C.A., speech

  MacCrellish, Frederick

  MacDonald, George

  MacDonald, Louisa (Mrs. George MacDonald)

  “The Machine Episode,”

  Mackay, John W.

  Macy, John

  Magonigle, John Henry

  Maguire, Thomas

  Majestic Theatre, New York

  Malone, John

  Manley, R. M. (Hilary Trent)

  Maria Nicolaievna, Grand Duchess

  Marion Rangers. See Hannibal Home Guard

  Mark Twain: A Biography (MTB) (Paine)

  Paine’s plans to write

  Mark Twain in Eruption (MTE) (DeVoto)

  Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO)

  Mark Twain’s Autobiography (MTA) (Paine)

  differences from SLC’s version

  writings omitted

  Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

  Marsh, Edward L.

  Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard

  Marsh, William J.

  Mason, Dean B.

  Mason, Frank H.

  Mason, Jennie V. Birchard (Mrs. Frank H. Mason)

  Massiglia, Countess (Frances Paxton) passim

  Matthews, Brander

  Maudslay, Alfred P.

  Mauritius

  Mayo, Frank

  McAleer, Alice

  McAleer, Anne (Nancy)

  McAleer, Edward

  McAleer, Mary Reagan (Mrs. Patrick McAleer)

  McAleer, Michael

  McAleer, Patrick

  described by SLC

  hired for newlywed Clemenses

  illness and death

  McAleer, William

  McCall, John A.

  McCall, John C.

  McCarthy, Denis

  McClellan, George B.

  McClure, S. S.

  McClure’s Magazine

  McCormick, Wales

  McCullough, John

  McDaniel, James W. (Jimmy)

  McDowell, Joseph Nash

  McKinley, William

  McKnight, George H.

  McLaren, Elizabeth T.

  McMurry, T. P. (Pet)

  Medici, Cosimo de’ (Cosimo I)

  Medici, Lorenzo de’

  Mefford, Leonard

  Mémoires (Casanova)

  Mental telegraphy

  Menzies, John

  Meredith, Anna (Mrs. Hugh Meredith)

  Meredith, Charles

  Meredith, Henry H.

  Meredith, Hugh

  Meredith, John D.

  Miller, Mary

  Millet, Francis D. (Frank)

  Miner, George R.

  Mitchell, Josiah Angier

  Moffett, Mary Emily Mantz (Mrs. Samuel E. Moffett)

  Moffett, Pamela A. Clemens (Mrs. William A. Moffett)

  birth

  illness and death

  on Jane Lampton Clemens

  music teacher

  Moffett, Samuel E.

  Moffett, William A.

  Monday Evening Club

  Moore, Thomas

  Mora, F. Luis

  Morgan, John Pierpont

  Moro tribe (Philippines): U.S. massacre

  Morrill, Paul

  Morris, Mrs. Minor

  Morris, William

  Moss, Mary (Mrs. Robert F. Lakenan)

  Mulford, Prentice

  Müller, George Friedrich

  Munro, David A.

  as editor of North American Review

  as Players club member

  Murphy, Edgar Gardner

  Murray, T. Douglas

  Muscatine, Iowa

  Muscatine Journal: Orion Clemens buys and sells

  “My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It],”

  manuscript facsimile of first page

  textual history

  “My Debut as a Literary Person,”

  My Mark Twain (Howells)

  “The Mysterious Stranger” manuscripts (“Schoolhouse Hill”; “St. Petersburg Fragment”)

  NAR. See North American Review

  Nasby, Petroleum Vesuvius. See Locke, David Ross

  Nash, Abner

  Nash, Mary (Mrs. John Hubbard)

  Nash, Thomas S.

  Nast, Thomas

  Native Americans. See also Injun Joe

  Neider, Charles. See The Autobiography of Mark Twa
in (AMT) (Neider)

  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

 

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