Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

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  Kohn, John S. Van E. 1957. “Mark Twain’s 1601.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 18 (Winter): 49–54.

  Krass, Peter. 2007. Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Speculator and Entrepreneur. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.

  Krauth, Leland. 2003. Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

  Kruse, Horst H. 1992. “Mark Twain’s Nom de Plume: Some Mysteries Resolved.” Mark Twain Journal 30 (Spring): 1–32.

  L1. 1988. Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 1: 1853–1866. Edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael B. Frank, and Kenneth M. Sanderson. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO.

  L2. 1990. Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 2: 1867–1868. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, Richard Bucci, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO.

  L3. 1992. Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO.

  L4. 1995. Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO.

  L5. 1997. Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO.

  L6. 2002. Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO.

  Letters 1876–1880. 2007. Mark Twain’s Letters, 1876–1880. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Harriet Elinor Smith, with Sharon K. Goetz, Benjamin Griffin, and Leslie Myrick. Mark Twain Project Online. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [To locate a letter text from its citation, select the “Letters” link at http://www.marktwainproject.org, then use the “Date Written” links in the left-hand column.]

  Letters NP1. 2010. Mark Twain’s Letters Newly Published 1. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Harriet Elinor Smith. Mark Twain Project Online. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [To locate a letter text from its citation, select the “Letters” link at http://www.marktwainproject.org, then use the “Date Written” links in the left-hand column.]

  Lamphere, George N. 1881. The United States Government: Its Organization and Practical Workings. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.

  Lampton, Lucius Marion. 1990. The Genealogy of Mark Twain. Jackson, Miss.: Diamond L Publishing.

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  n.d. Hot Stuff by Famous Funny Men: Comprising Wit, Humor, Pathos, Ridicule, Satires, Dialects, Puns, Conundrums, Riddles, Charades, Jokes and Magic. Chicago: Reilly and Britton Company.

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  Lawton, Mary. 1925. A Lifetime with Mark Twain: The Memories of Katy Leary, for Thirty Years His Faithful and Devoted Servant. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.

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  Leary, Lewis, ed. 1961. Mark Twain’s Letters to Mary. New York: Columbia University Press.

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  Lyon, Isabel V.

  1903–6. MS journal of seventy-four pages, with entries dated 7 November 1903 to 14 January 1906, CU-MARK.

  1905a. Diary in The Standard Daily Reminder: 1905. MS notebook of 368 pages, CU-MARK. [Lyon kept two diaries for 1905, this one and Lyon 1905b; some entries appear in both, but each also includes entries not found in the other.]

  1905b. Diary in The Standard Daily Reminder: 1905. MS notebook of 368 pages, photocopy in CU-MARK. [In 1971 the original diary was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Antenne and Mr. and Mrs. James F. Dorrance, of Rice Lake, Wisconsin; its current location is unknown. Lyon kept two diaries for 1905, this one and Lyon 1905a; some entries appear in both, but each also includes entries not found in the other.]

  1906. Diary in The Standard Daily Reminder: 1906. MS notebook of 368 pages, CU-MARK.

  1907. Diary in Date Book for 1907. MS notebook of 368 pages, CU-MARK.

  Lystra, Karen. 2004. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  Machias Census. 1900. Population Schedules of the Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Roll T623. Maine: Washington County, Machias Township. Photocopy in CU-MARK.

  Mahar, William J. 1999. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

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  Matthews, Brander.

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  1896. “The Penalty of Humor.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 92 (May): 897–900.

  1922. “Memories of Mark Twain.” In The Tocsin of Revolt and Other Essays, 253–94. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

  Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. 1908. “The Author’s Full Dinner Pail.” Bookman 28 (December): 326–39.

  McKeithan, Daniel Morley. 1961. The Morgan Manuscript of Mark Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson.” Essays and Studies on American Language and Literature, 12. Uppsala: A.-B. Lundequistska Bokhandeln.

  McKivigan, John. 2008. Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

  McNay, Dan. 2011. “Helena de Kay Gilder.” http://helenadekaygilder.org/index.htm. Accessed 18 May 2011.

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  MH-H. Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

  Mieder, Wolfgang, Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie B. Harder, eds. 1992. A Dictionary of American Proverbs. New York: Oxford University Press.

  Miller, Brenda J. 2012. “Bartlett’s Tower.” http://www.ctvisit.com/travelstories/details/bartlett-s-tower/81. Accessed 6 April 2012.

  Miller, James, comp. 1866. Miller’s New York as It Is. New York: J. Miller. Citations are to the 1975 reprint edition, The 1866 Guide to New York City. New York: Schocken Books.

  Miller, William C. 1973. “Samuel L. and Orion Clemens vs. Mark Twain and His Biographers (1861–1862).” Mark Twain Journal 16 (Summer): 1–9.

  Missouri Death Records. 2011. Missouri Death Records, 1834–1910 [online database]. http://ancestry.com. Accessed 3 October 2011.

  Missouri Marriage Records. 2011. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002 [online database]. http://ancestry.com. Accessed 10 September 2011.

  Mitchell, Edward P. 1924. Memoirs of an Editor: Fifty Years of American Journalism. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

  MnHi. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

  Mooney, Michael Macdonald. 1976. Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age. New York: William Morrow and Co.

  MoPeS. St. Mary’s Seminary, Perryville, Mo.

  Morgan, James Appleton. 1910. “Concluding Chapter of Dr. Morgan’s Autobiography.” New Shakespeareana 9, nos. 2–3 (May–September): 42–78.

  Morris, Roy, Jr. 1995. Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company. New York: Crown Publishers.

  Mott, Frank Luther.

  1938a. A History of American Magazines, 1850–1865. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

  1938b. A History of American Magazines, 1865–1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

  1950. American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States through 260 Years, 1690 to 1950. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan Company.

  MS. Manuscript.

  MSM. 1969. Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts. Edited by William M. Gibson. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  MTA. 1924. Mark Twain’s Autobiography. Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  MTB. 1912. Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.]

  MTBus. 1946. Mark Twain, Business Man. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

  MTE. 1940. Mark Twain in Eruption. Edited by Bernard DeVoto. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  MTEnt. 1957. Mark Twain of the “Enterprise.” Edited by Henry Nash Smith, with the assistance of Frederick Anderson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  MTH. 1947. Mark Twain and Hawaii. By Walter Francis Frear. Chicago: Lakeside Press.

  MTHL. 1960. Mark Twain-Howells Letters. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, with the assistance of Frederick Anderson. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

  MTL. 1917. Mark Twain’s Letters. Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers.

  MTLP. 1967. Mark Twain’s Letters to His Publishers, 1867–1894. Edited by Hamlin Hill. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  MTPO. Mark Twain Project Online. Edited by the Mark Twain Project. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [Launched 1 November 2007.] http://www.marktwainproject.org.

  MTTB. 1940. Mark Twain’s Travels with Mr. Brown. Edited by Franklin Walker and G. Ezra Dane. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

  Murray, Timothy D. 1986. “G. W. Carleton (New York: 1861–1871); G. W. Carleton and Company (New York: 1871–1886).” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 49: American Literary Publishing Houses, 1638–1899. Part 1: A–M. Edited by Peter Dzwonkoski. Detroit: Gale Research Company.

  “My Sutherland-Wright Ancestry.” 2011. Privately compiled genealogy, photocopy in CU-MARK.

  N&J1. 1975. Mark Twain’s Notebooks & Journals, Volume 1 (1855–1873). Edited by Frederick Anderson, Michael B. Frank, and Kenneth M. Sanderson. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  N&J2. 1975. Mark Twain’s Notebooks & Journals, Volume 2 (1877–1883). Edited by Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard Stein. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  N&J3. 1979. Mark Twain’s Notebooks & Journals, Volume 3 (1883–1891). Edited by Robert Pack Browning, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  NAR 1. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—I. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (7 September): 321–30. Galley proofs of the “Introduction” only (NAR 1pf) at ViU.

  NAR 2. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—II. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (21 September): 449–60. Galley proofs (NAR 2pf) at ViU.

  NAR 3. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—III. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (5 October): 577–89. Galley proofs (NAR 3pf) at ViU.

  NAR 4. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—IV. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (19 October): 705–16. Galley proofs (NAR 4pf) at ViU.

  NAR 5. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—V. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (2 November): 833–44. Galley proofs (NAR 5pf) at ViU.

  NAR 6. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—VI. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (16 November): 961–70. Galley proofs (NAR 6pf) at ViU.

  NAR 7. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—VII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (7 December): 1089–95. Galley proofs (NAR 7pf) at ViU.

  NAR 8. 1906. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—VIII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 183 (21 December): 1217–24. Galley proofs (NAR 8pf) at ViU.

  NAR 9
. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—IX. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (4 January): 1–14. Galley proofs (NAR 9pf) at ViU.

  NAR 10. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—X. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (18 January): 113–19. Galley proofs (NAR 10pf) at ViU.

  NAR 11. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XI. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (1 February): 225–32. Galley proofs (NAR 11pf) at ViU.

  NAR 12. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (15 February): 337–46. Galley proofs (NAR 12pf) at ViU.

  NAR 13. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XIII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (1 March): 449–63. Galley proofs (NAR 13pf) at ViU.

  NAR 14. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XIV. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (15 March): 561–71.

  NAR 15. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XV. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (5 April): 673–82. Galley proofs (NAR 15pf) at ViU.

  NAR 16. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XVI. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (19 April): 785–93.

  NAR 17. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XVII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 184 (3 May): 1–12. Galley proofs (NAR 17pf) at ViU.

  NAR 18. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XVIII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 185 (17 May): 113–22.

  NAR 19. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XIX. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 185 (7 June): 241–51. Galley proofs (NAR 19pf) at ViU.

  NAR 20. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XX. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 185 (5 July): 465–74.

  NAR 21. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography—XXI. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 185 (2 August): 689–98. Galley proofs (NAR 21pf) at ViU.

  NAR 22. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XXII. By Mark Twain.” North American Review 186 (September): 8–21.

  NAR 23. 1907. “Chapters from My Autobiography.—XXIII . By Mark Twain.” North American Review 186 (October): 161–73.