by Ron Powers
Index
A. B. Chambers
abolitionism
Academy of Music
Academy of Sciences
Adams, John
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain)
banning of
in Century
criticism of
dialect in
Huckleberry Finn in
illustrations of
Jim in
Jim’s early speeches in
manuscript of
model for Huckleberry Finn in
model for Jim in
model for Miss Watson in
publication of
race and racism in
raft accident in
raft chapter of
reviews of
sales of
song in
sunrise passage in
Tom Sawyer and
typing of
writing of
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain)
dramatic version of
grave-robbing scene in
Huckleberry Finn and
Huckleberry Finn in
model for Becky Thatcher in
model for Joe Harper in
model for Judge Thatcher in
model for Sid in
publication of
reviews of
sales of
writing of
Agassiz, Louis
Agee, James
Agee, Olivia
Age of Reason, The (Paine)
Ah Sin: A Drama (Twain and Harte)
“Aix, The Paradise of the Rheumatics” (Twain)
Ajax
Alabama, secession of
Alcott, Louisa May
Alden, Henry Mills
Aldrich, Lilian
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Alessandro Moreschi: The Last Castrato, Complete Vatican Recordings
Alexander II, Czar of Russia
Alfred T. Lacy
Alger, Horatio
Alger, William Rounseville
“All About the Fashions” (Twain)
Allen, William H.
Allen, Woody
Allentown Chronicle
Alonzo Child
Alta California
SLC’s letters to
Ament, Joseph P.
America
American Claimant, The
American Copyright League
American Courier
American Literary Bureau
American Publisher
American Publishing Company
American Revolution
“American Scholar, The” (Emerson)
Amnesty Act (1872)
Andrews, Edward
Andrews, William
Anthony, Susan B.
Antietam, Battle of
Anti-Imperialist League
“Appeal in Behalf of Extending the Suffrage to Boys, An” (Twain)
Appleton, William Henry
Appomattox campaign
Aquarium club
Argus
Arnold, Matthew
Arthur, Chester A.
“As Concerns Interpreting the Deity” (Twain)
Ashcroft, Ralph
Astaire, Fred
Asylum Hill Congregational Church
“Atalanta in Calydon” (Swinburne)
Athenaeum
Atheneum
Athens, Greece
Atlantic Monthly
“Carnival of Crime” in
Howells’s departure from
and SLC’s “skeleton novelette,”
“Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion” in
“At the Shrine of St. Wagner’s” (Twain)
Aunt Hannah (slave)
Austen, Jane
Austin, L. F.
Australia
Austria
“Autobiography of a Damned Fool, The” (Twain)
model for Mrs. Bangs in
Autobiography of Mark Twain, The (Twain)
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (Holmes)
Azores
“Babes in the Wood” (Ward)
“Babies” (Twain)
Bachelor of Arts
Badeau, Adam
Baetzhold, Howard G.
Bailey, John A.
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss
Barnes, George E.
Barnum, P. T.
Barstow, Bill
Batavia
Bates, Edward
“Battles and Leaders of the Civil War”
Beach, Emma
Beach, Moses Sperry
Beard, Daniel
Beats
Beebe, William
Beecher, Henry Ward
and Quaker City cruise
scandal of
Beecher, Julia Jones
Beecher, Lyman
Beecher, Thomas K.
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Belford, Alexander
Belford Brothers
Belknap, William W.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Ben (slave)
Ben Hur (Wallace)
Bennett, James Gordon
Bergen, Edgar
Berkeley, University of California at
Bermingham, Nellie
Berne Convention
“Best Friend of Charleston, The” (train)
Bethlehem Times
Beuchotte, Claude Joseph
Beveridge, Albert J.
Beyond the Mississippi (Richardson)
Bible
Bierce, Ambrose
Big Bertha
Big Bonanza, The (De Quille)
Bigler, John
Billings, Josh
Birch, George Bright
Bissell, Richard M.
Bissell, Richard M., Jr.
Bixby, Horace
Black Crook, The
Black Friday
Black Warrior Gold and Silver Mining Company
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blaine, James
Blaisdel, H. G.
Blankenship, Bence
Blankenship, Mahala
Blankenship, Tom
Blankenship, Woodson
Bleak House (Dickens)
Bliss, Amelia
Bliss, Elisha
advance to SLC from
Gilded Age and
Innocents Abroad and
Orion and
Roughing It and
Tom Sawyer and
Tramp Abroad and
Bliss, Frank
“Bloody Massacre near Carson, A” (Twain)
Bloom, Harold
Boer War
Boggs & Grant
bohemians
Booth, Edwin
Borneo, dwarfish twins of
Boston, Mass.
Boston Advertiser
Boston Daily Globe
Boston Evening Transcript
Bostonians, The ( James)
Boston Lyceum Bureau
Boston Sun
Boston Transcript
Bowen, Bart
Bowen, Mattie
Bowen, Samuel
Bowen, William
Bowles, Samuel
Bowman, Jimmy
Bowser, David Watt “Wattie,”
Boxer rebellion
Boyesen, H. H.
Boynton, Paul
Boy’s Town Described, A (Howells)
Bradley & Rulofson
Brady, Mathew
Branch, Edgar Marquess
Brazil
Briggs, John
Brittingham, L. T.
Broadway
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooks, Fidele
Brown, John
Brown, Walter F.
Brown, William
Browne, Charles Farrar, see Ward, Artemus
Browne, Junius Henri
Brownell, Ed
Brownell, Louise Sheffield
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Bruckner, Anton
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchanan, James
Buchanan, Joseph
Buchanan, Robert (nephew)
Buchanan, Robert (uncle)
Budd, Louis
Buddha
Buell, Dwight
Buffalo Express
SLC’s purchase of
Bugs Bunny
Bulette, Julie
Bulletin
Bull Run, Battle of
Bunyan, John
Burbank, A. P.
Burlingame, Anson
Burns, Robert
Burr, James
Burrough, Jacob
Butler, Ben
Byng, Carl
Byrd, A. K.
Byrd, C. O.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cable, George Washington
Cady, Edwin
Calaveras County
California
skirmish with Nevada of
Californian
California Steam Navigation Company
California Weekly Mercury
Call
Calvin, John
Calvinism
Camp, Herman
Campbell, Alexander
Campbell, John
Campbell, Thomas
Campbellites
Canada
“Cannibalism in the Cars” (Twain)
Cap’n Simon Wheeler; The Amateur Detective (Twain)
“Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (Twain)
Carleton, George W.
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie, Andrew
Caron, Leslie
Carpenter, Judge
Carpet-Bag
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Kit
Carson City, Nev.
Carson Theater
Caruso, Enrico
Cass, Lewis
Castro, Fidel
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, The (Twain)
“Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The” (Twain)
Century
Century Club
Century Company
Cervantes, Miguel de
Ceylon
Chamberlain, Fred C.
Chamberlin, Franklin
Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chandler, Zachariah
Chang and Eng
Charles L. Webster & Company
Charlotte, Princess
Chatto, Andrew
Chatto & Windus
Cheever, John
Chesterton, G. K.
Chicago, Ill.:
Grant banquet in
Great Fire in
Chicago Herald
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Chicago Tribune
Child’s History of England (Dickens)
China
Christian Science
“Chronicles of Young Satan, The” (Twain)
Church, Francis P.
Church, William Conant
Church, William F.
Churchill, Winston
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati Commercial
City of Baton Rouge
City of Memphis
City of New York
“Civilisation in the United States” (Arnold)
Civil Rights Act (1874)
Civil War, U.S.
see also specific battles
Clagett, Billy
Clapp, Henry, Jr.
Clare, Ada
Clarke, Harry M.
Clemens, Benjamin (SLC’s brother)
Clemens, Clara, see Samossoud, Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch
Clemens, Henry (SLC’s brother)
attacked by Brown
death and burial of
letter to SLC by
as “mud-clerk”
SLC’s dream about
in SLC’s fiction
SLC’s relationship with
Clemens, James, Jr.
Clemens, James Ross
Clemens, Jane Lampton (SLC’s mother)
death and burial of
and death of children
and death of husband
in England
in mourning for husband
religion and
sale of SLC’s letters by
SLC’s education and
SLC’s employment and
SLC’s Indian prejudice and
SLC’s letters to
in SLC’s psychology
SLC’s relationship with
SLC’s wedding and
as target of SLC’s satire
on visit to SLC
wit of
Clemens, Jane Lampton “Jean” (SLC’s daughter)
animals’ rights and
birth of
death of
epilepsy of
fire in crib of
in Germany
pneumonia of
scarlet fever of
sullenness of
Clemens, Jennie (Orion’s daughter)
Clemens, John Marshall (SLC’s father)
aloofness of
burial of
contradictions of
death of
and death of children
land deals of
lawsuits of
money problems of
personality of
religion of
in SLC’s fiction
Clemens, Langdon (SLC’s son)
Clemens, Margaret (SLC’s sister)
Clemens, Mollie (Orion’s wife)
Clemens, Olivia Langdon “Livy” (SLC’s wife)
Ah Sin and
anniversary of Susy’s death and
“Autobiography of a Damned Fool” and
background of
birthday of
birth of
and birth of Langdon
breathing trouble of
childhood illness of
Clara’s birth and
Colonel Sellers debacle and
Connecticut Yankee and
dark moods of
death of
and death of mother
department stores and
at Dickens reading
diphtheria of
end of bankruptcy of
engagement of
in England
father’s death and
first house of
in Germany
Gilded Age and
heart strain of
Huckleberry Finn and
income of
inheritance of
Innocents Abroad proofs and
Jane’s birth and
Langdon’s death and
Langdon’s illness and
letters of
in move to Europe
New York illness of
New York trip of
at Nook Farm
nurse for
in Paris
pregnancy troubles of
Prince and the Pauper and
rheumatism of
science studies of
on SLC’s around the world tour
SLC’s English trip and
at SLC’s lecture
SLC’s letters to
SLC’s love letters to
as SLC’s nurse
SLC’s profanity and
SLC’s proposal to
in SLC’s psychology
and SLC’s religion
SLC’s temper and
solitaire and
sprained ankle of
Susy’s birth and
Susy’s death and
trip west of
typhoid fever of
at Wave Hill
on Webster & Co.’s collapse
Webster loan made by
wedding of
women’s suffrage and
Clemens, Olivia Susan “Susy” (SLC’s daughter)
aphoristic skills of
appearance of
biography of SLC by
&nb
sp; birth of
birth weight of
at Bryn Mawr
burial of
Connecticut Yankee and
depression of
in Germany
Harte’s affection for
Huckleberry Finn and
illness and death of
in Italy
on Joan of Arc
Louise Brownell and
Prince and the Pauper and
scarlet fever of
SLC’s temper and
on trip to England
twenty-fourth birthday of
Clemens, Orion (SLC’s brother)
accusations against Bliss
American dream of
American Publisher and
autobiography of
book ideas of
burial of
Cap’n Simon Wheeler and
death of
and death of daughter
editorials of
electric light investment and
imagined lecture series of
inventions of
Journal and
law practice attempted by
in Lincoln campaign
money troubles of
as Nevada governor
as Nevada secretary
as Nevada secretary of state
in New York
poison incident of
printing trade learned by
Roughing It manuscript and
Roughing It notes of
on Rutland Globe
in SLC’s fiction
SLC’s letters to
SLC’s ridicule of
SLC’s visit to
temperance supported by
Clemens, Pamela, see Moffett, Pamela Clemens
Clemens, Pleasant Hannibal
Clemens, Samuel
abstinence of
alcohol and
Aldrich as viewed by
alleged homosexuality of
on Americans
anglophilia of
Annie Moffett’s relationship with
anti-French feelings of
anti-imperialism of
Aquarium Club of
Arnold and
at Atlantic dinner
attack on Arnold by
autobiography of
as autodidact
automated house and
in Azores
bandit hoax on
bawdy jokes of
at Beecher’s trial
Benjamin’s death and
Bermuda trip of
Bible and
biographers and
birth of
Bixby’s hoax on
Bliss contract of
at Bliss house
boarding-house fire and
as Bohemian
boils of
book sales of
at Boston luncheon
Boston trip of
Bowen’s fight with
boyhood pranks of
Brazil trip planned by
British reviews of
Brown’s abuse toward
Brown’s fight with
Buffalo Express purchase of
California arrest of
Carleton’s relationship with
on Charley Langdon
childhood games of
church epiphany of
Churchill speech of
church reading by
Clara’s suitor and
clothing of
Colonel Sellers debacle and
on communism
conscripted into Union Army
Cooper Union lecture of
Corbett and
cottage workspace of
