Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

  PLACES: Baden-Baden, 242, 568; Bad Homburg, 181–82, 228, 546, 560; Bad Nauheim, 181, 506, 546; Frankfurt, 584–85; Hamburg, 417, 631; Mannheim, 539. See also Berlin

  Gilbert, W. S., 333, 537, 560, 603

  The Gilded Age (SLC and Warner), 53, 467, 478, 533, 588, 601, 633, 641, 650. See also Colonel Sellers

  Gilder, Dorothea, 270, 509

  Gilder, Helena de Kay, 243, 568

  Gilder, Louise Comfort Tiffany, 569

  •Gilder, Richard Watson: as Century Magazine editor, 494; family, 243, 244, 568–69, 579; as Fellowcraft Club member, 183–84, 186, 546; Friday night soirées, 568

  Gilder, Rodman, 244, 568–69

  Gilgamesh epic, 130, 523

  Gillette, Elisabeth (Lilly; Mrs. George Warner), 331, 540, 557

  Gillette, William Hooker, 224, 557

  Gillis, William (Billy), 514, 636

  Gillis, Francina California, 514

  Gillis, James (Jim): clothing, 422; Harte’s stay, 518; liberality, 423; “pocket mining,” 422, 621, 636; safe after earthquake, 113, 114; SLC’s stay, 514

  Gillis, Mary Elizabeth (Mollie), 514

  Gillis, Stephen E. (Steve), 113, 114, 514

  Gillis, Theresa Ann (Mrs. Henry Williams), 514

  Gilman, George Shepard (“Judge What’s-his-name”), 53, 488–89

  Ginn, Frank H., 535

  Gladstone, William, 449, 560, 646–47

  God: characterized by SLC, 127–30, 136–40; Clara’s comments, 309–10, 593; creation of man, 288–89; man’s interpretation of intentions, 365–79; as Providence, 117, 292–93, 380, 382, 440–42; SLC’s reluctance to discuss frankly, 121, 522. See also Bible; Determinism; Christianity; Religion

  The God Damned Human Race (club), 442–43, 643

  Goelet, May, 415, 629–30

  Goggin, Pamelia (SLC’s father’s mother), 627

  “Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again,” 515

  Golden Era (periodical), 118, 119, 517, 518, 562, 650

  Goodman, Joseph T.: on “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” 550; duel with Fitch, 416, 630; on insurance stock, 55, 56; safe after earthquake, 113; SLC hired, 567

  Gordon, Clara J., 244, 569

  Gould, Jay, 116, 388, 409, 623–24

  G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 597. See also Putnam, George Haven

  Grand Army of the Republic: allied organizations, 623; annual convention, 372; banquet for Grant, 70–71, 181, 252, 573; founding and goals, 615–16; influence on Congress, 387. See also Pensions

  Grant, Frederick, 60–61, 62, 64, 74–75, 498

  Grant, Jesse, 333, 603

  Grant, Julia: Grant’s funeral, 574; proceeds from Grant’s Memoirs, 73, 74, 75–76, 255, 497, 498, 499, 574

  Grant, Miriam M. McFarland, 301, 590–91

  Grant, Orville R., 301, 590, 590–91

  Grant, Ulysses S.: Chicago banquet, 70–71, 180–81, 252, 496, 573; Civil War articles, 61–62, 494; death and funeral, 73, 255, 574; Gerhardt’s bust, 571; illnesses, 65, 66, 72, 495; names and faces remembered, 181; Nast’s sketch, 13; pension and title restored, 70–71, 496; popularity of Roosevelt compared with, 9; presidential appointments, 45, 556–57; sale of letters, 10, 463; SLC’s meeting, 180, 546; SLC’s tribute, 218–19; “Unconditional Surrender” nickname, 497; Ward’s swindling, 61, 62, 66–67. See also Personal Memoirs

  Grant and Ward (brokerage firm), 61, 62, 66–67, 497

  Gray, David, 156–57, 175, 536

  Great Britain: Clemenses’ travel (1872–73), 165, 539, 650; copyright law, 284, 288–89, 291, 318, 339–41, 586–87, 605, 641; free speech absent, 442; and international copyright, 287–88; naval fleet and statesmanship, 134–35, 525; pirated editions of SLC’s works, 641; Simplified Spelling opposed, 274, 580; SLC’s history game, 351–52, 608; tax on foreign copyright owners, 179–80, 545. See also British Empire; British Parliament; London

  Great Eastern Railway Company, 444

  Greece (ancient), 130–31, 168, 323, 371

  Greeley, Horace: Nast’s sketch, 13; SLC’s anecdote, 199, 200–203, 553, 554; mentioned, 464

  Green, George Walton, 584

  Greening, Tabitha Quarles, 470

  Gregory I (pope), 369, 615

  Griffin, George, 241, 257, 419, 567

  Griffiths, Mrs. William, 122–23, 126–27, 521–22

  Griswold, Anna (Mrs. Francis Bret Harte), 420, 426, 630–31

  Guggenheim, Simon, 410, 628

  Guiteau, Charles J., 526

  Gunn, Alexander, 153–54, 535

  Gunn, John C., 627

  Gunther, Charles F., 628

  Gutenberg, Johannes, 586

  Gwynn, Dr. See Barret, Richard Ferril

  The Hague, Palace of Peace, 172, 541

  Hale, Edward Everett, 318, 338–40, 424, 598, 605, 636

  Hale and Norcross Silver Mining Company, 20–21, 422, 468

  Hall, Frederick J.: biographical information, 503; A Connecticut Yankee, 501; Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter, 584–85; management of Webster and Company, 78, 500–503; military memoirs and war literature, 500; Walters’s Oriental Ceramic Art, 502

  Hambourg, Mark, 103, 509

  Hancock, Almira Russell, 500

  Hancock, Winfield Scott, 500, 593

  Hannibal (of Carthage), 330

  Hannibal (Mo.): cemetery, 152–53, 534; Clemenses’ living arrangements, 301, 590; Clemenses’ move, 649, 652; Jane Clemens’s departure, 653; mesmerist, 297–300, 589; minstrel show, 294, 296, 588; phrenologist’s visit, 335; schools and teachers, 177–78, 544; SLC’s last visit, 534, 590, 641; stabbing affray, 301, 590; story about Huck and Tom’s later years, 552

  Hannibal Gazette, 589

  Hannibal Journal: Orion’s ownership, 230, 560, 653; serial story sought, 233–34; SLC’s sketches, 230, 560–61; staff, 260–61, 589

  Hannibal Missouri Courier, 561, 649

  Hannibal Tri-Weekly Messenger, 561

  Hannibal Western Union, 561, 589, 649, 653

  Hapgood, Emilie Bigelow, 101, 102, 270, 509, 579

  Hapgood, Norman, 270, 509, 579

  Harcourt, William Vernon, 228, 560

  Hare, William, 235, 563

  Harper and Brothers: American Publishing Company purchase, 160, 539; Christian Science published, 144–45, 529; Howells’s contract, 501; legal counsel (see Larkin, John); Mark Twain’s Library of Humor, 146–49, 151, 530–31; rights to SLC’s books, 143–44, 528; SLC’s contract, 146–47, 531, 539, 651. See also Duneka, Frederick A.; Harvey, George

  Harper’s Bazar, 190, 526, 547–48

  Harper’s Monthly, Nevinson’s articles on Portuguese West Africa, 145, 529; SLC’s tribute to Howells, 152, 533–34

  SLC’S WORKS: “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” 550–51; “The Death-Disk,” 553; “A Dog’s Tale,” 189, 547; “A Horse’s Tale,” 145, 189–90, 529, 547; “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?,” 83–96, 100, 103–4, 107, 506

  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine: Alden as editor, 562; Huckleberry Finn reviewed, 475; Snodgrass letters, 230–31, 562

  SLC’S WORKS: “Forty-three Days in an Open Boat,” 641; “Luck,” 157, 344, 537; “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc,” 608–9; “A Petition to the Queen of England,” 179–80, 545–46

  Harper’s Weekly: Harvey’s parable about White, 455–56, 648; on Kipling, 543–44; Nast’s cartoons of Tweed Ring, 462, 464–65; palm readings arranged by editor, 337, 390, 400, 624. See also Harvey, George

  SLC’S WORKS: series of photographs, 204–10, 554; “Why Not Abolish It?,” 647–48

  •Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus): age, 260; expression “dry gripes,” 115; letter from SLC, 577; photograph mentioned, 576; praise for Huckleberry Finn, 265, 577; tribute for SLC’s fiftieth birthday, 259, 263, 264–65, 575

  Harrison, Katherine I., 504

  Harrods (London), 450–52, 647

  Harte, Anna Griswold (Mrs. Francis Bret Harte), 420, 426, 630–31

  Harte, Eliza C.T. (Mrs. Frederick Knaufft; Bret’s sister), 420, 634

  •Harte,
Bret: death, 422, 636; marriage and family, 417, 630–31, 638; mistresses, 422, 635–36; move to East, 119, 120, 518–19; treatment of son, 425, 637; mentioned, 484, 599

  CHARACTERISTICS: debts, 417–18, 420–21, 634; “Howells’s opinion, 519–20; “man without a country,” 424–25; pretense of wealth, 423–24; SLC’s opinion, 119–20, 127, 417–18, 420–21, 425–26, 519; temperament, 427–28, 430; treachery, 425

  LITERARY CONCERNS: anecdote of Osborn’s adventure, 324–26; dialects used in writing, 118, 518, 520, 521; fame, 416–17; literary contracts, 120, 421, 635; on Phelps’s The Gates Ajar, 550; playwriting, 418–20, 631–32 (see also Ah Sin); proposed book of sketches with SLC, 485; writing process, 118–19

  OCCUPATIONS: compositor, newspaper and magazine editor, 118, 415–16, 517; schoolteacher, 118, 415, 517–18; secretary at U.S. Mint, 117–18, 516–17; U.S. consul, 119, 424–25, 519–20. See also Californian; Golden Era; Overland Monthly

  RELATIONSHIP WITH SLC: Hartford visits, 418, 419–20, 424, 631, 632–33; ruptured friendship, 634, 635; SLC’s loans, 418, 421, 423–24, 634

  WORKS: Condensed Novels, 118, 517; Gabriel Conroy, 120, 421, 634–35; “The Idyl of Red Gulch,” 631; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (including title story), 120, 416–17, 518, 520–21; “Mr. Thompson’s Prodigal,” 631; “Plain Language from Truthful James” (“The Heathen Chinee”), 120, 520; “Tennessee’s Partner,” 120, 521; “Thankful Blossom” (called “Faithful Blossom”), 419, 632–33; Two Men of Sandy Bar, 418–19, 631–32, 636. See also Ah Sin

  Harte, Ethel (Bret’s daughter), 426, 630–31

  Harte, Francis King (Frank; Bret’s son), 425–26, 630–31, 637

  Harte, Griswold (Bret’s son), 426, 630–31

  Harte, Jessamy (Bret’s daughter), 426, 427, 630–31, 638–39

  Hartford Accident Insurance Company, 55–56, 490–91

  Hartford Courant, 35–36, 56–57, 146, 479, 491, 609

  Hartford Engineering Company (steam-powered pulleys), 55, 490

  Hartford Evening Post, 22, 26, 470–71

  Hartwick, Rose (Mrs. Thorpe) 215, 556

  Hartwig, Elias, 507

  Hartwig, Florence, 97–98, 507

  •Harvey, George: biographical information, 510; “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” accepted, 551; Eve’s Diary review clipping sent, 540; as club member, 643; hires Duneka, 527; letter from SLC, 609; palm readings arranged, 337, 90, 400, 624; parable about White, 455–56, 648; and SLC’s sixty-seventh birthday dinner, 105, 510; Tennyson lines quoted, 612; travels, 149, 151. See also Harper and Brothers

  Hastings (writer), 118, 517

  Hawkins, Homer, 41–42, 482

  Hawley, David, 281–83, 583–84

  Hawley, Joseph Roswell, 56, 283, 491

  Hawley Bill, 284, 288, 584

  Hay, John, 153–55, 535

  Hay, Rosina (Mrs. Horace K. Terwilliger; nurse): children rescued, 240–42, 568; in Germany with family, 225; marriage, 242, 568; mentioned, 539, 542

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 424–25, 519–20, 636–37

  Heinrich (prince of Prussia): SLC as guest at dinner, 310, 594; U.S. visit, 432–33, 639–40; on veterans’ pensions, 431

  “Hellfire Hotchkiss,” 588

  Hemans, Felicia, 644

  Henderson, Berta von Bunsen, 555

  Henderson, Ernest Flagg, 214, 555

  Henry (prince). See Heinrich

  Henry I (king of England), 351, 365–67, 614

  Henry II (king of England), 614

  Henry II (king of England), 352

  Henry V (king of England), 352

  Henry of Huntingdon, 366–69, 614

  Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (prince), 444, 643

  Hervy, Miss (university woman), 15–16

  Hicks, Urban East, 298–99, 300, 589, 590

  Hieroglyphics: alphabet vs., 266–69; mock translations, 363–64, 613

  Higbie, Calvin: biographical information, 540; manuscript sent for SLC’s criticism, 168–71, 182–83, 188, 541

  Higgins (bowler), 385–86

  Hill, David B., 36–37, 479, 480

  Hillis, Newell Dwight, 369–70, 615

  Hinckley, Howard N., 492

  Hinduism, 130, 131, 474, 523

  Hinton, J. T., 561

  Hirsch, Gilbert, 564

  “Historical Exhibition— A No. 1 Ruse,” 561

  •Hobby, Josephine (stenographer-typist): clippings pasted in typescript, 457, 463; Dublin stay, 511; and Simplified Spelling dictation, 578; SLC’s letter to Carnegie, 541; transcriptions, 540, 586, 615, 643, 646, 661; typing of Lyon’s notes, 611

  Hodson, Henrietta (Labouchere’s wife), 228, 559–60

  Hoeber, Arthur, 580

  Hoffmann, Heinrich (doctor): entertainment for sick children, 284–85; WORK: Der Struwwelpeter, 284, 584–85

  Holden, Miss (mind cure practitioner), 331, 602

  Holliday, Melicent S. McDonald, 404, 405, 626

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell: and father’s misplaced paper, 354, 356; letter from SLC, 577; life of books, 339; reaction to SLC’s copyright ideas, 286–88, 586; SLC’s opinion, 339; tribute for SLC’s fiftieth birthday, 259, 263–64, 575; mentioned, 233

  Holsatia (ship), 631

  Hood, Thomas, 435–36, 642

  Hooker, Edward Beecher, 403, 626

  Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 403, 626

  Hooker, John, 626

  Hoppe, William F., 384, 621, 622

  Hornet (ship), 435, 641

  Horr, Elizabeth, 177–78, 233, 544, 653

  “A Horse’s Tale”: composition and publication, 529–30, 547; Duneka’s opinion, 145–46; reader’s letter (and SLC’s reply), 188–90

  Hot Stuff by Famous Funny Men (Perkins, ed.), 534

  Hotten, John Camden, 488, 641

  Houdini, Harry, 626

  Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord, 156, 536

  House, Edward H. (friend in Japan), 156, 536

  House-flies. See Insects

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, 279, 582

  Howells, Elinor Mead, 509, 542–43, 607

  Howells, John Mead, 102, 509, 652

  Howells, Mildred (Pilla), 349, 607

  •Howells, William Dean: as club member, 643; hears story of Jane Clemens’s early romance, 610; and Jews, 349–50, 607; letters from SLC, 151–52, 495, 501, 515, 519, 520, 522, 542–43, 548, 586, 608, 631–34; letter to Hayes, 519–20; SLC’s opinion, 339; SLC’s tribute, 152, 533–34; summer visit with Clemenses, 80, 83; tribute to SLC, 510; typewriter gift, 446; mentioned, 527, 578

  LITERARY CONCERNS: “Chicago School of Fiction,” 534; collaborative story idea, 190, 547–48; and copyright hearings, 318–19; as editor of Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 353, 548, 562, 609; novelettes and play planned with SLC, 548, 553

  TOPICS DISCUSSED: age, 265; Harte, 418, 519; invalid story, 83 (see also “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?”); SLC’s character, 332, 602; SLC’s white suit, 572; SLC’s works, 194, 550, 552, 602

  WORKS: “A Double-Barrelled Sonnet to Mark Twain,” 510; The Rise of Silas Lapham, 349–50, 607; Venetian Life, 152, 534. See also Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

  Howells and Stokes (architectural firm), 509

  Huckleberry Finn. See Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Hudson Theatre (N.Y.), 16–17, 466

  Hugo, Victor, 517, 601

  Huguenots, assassinated on Bartholomew’s Day, 134, 524

  Human race: advance to perfection, 134; cats compared with, 248–49; character evidenced in letters, 121–27; easily deceived, 247; as ephemeral as soap bubbles, 258; exception to generalities about, 412–13; extreme behaviors juxtaposed, 307; free speech abominated by, 442; God’s disappointment, 288; and God’s two halves, 128–30; greed, 234–35; hopes for heaven, 140; house-fly’s mastery, 219–22; impossibility of irreverence, 167–68; law of temperament, 427–28, 429–30; love for titles, 37–38, 70, 314, 652; naïve self-appreciation, 18, 142; SLC’s study of self as representative, 383–84, 412; unchangeable nature, 37
0–72; vanity, 171; yearnings, 566. See also Determinism

  The Human Race (club), 442–43, 643

  Humor: about baldness, 26; of alcohol’s effects, 186; characteristics, 153; contagiousness of laughter, 297; early newspaper satire by SLC, 560–61; first humorous woman’s book, 45, 483; humor magazine editorship declined, 197, 552–53; as independent from facts, 167–68; Jacobs’s Dialstone Lane as perfect story, 182, 546; of maxims, 361; in minstrel shows, 295–96; newspaper satire, 6–7; phrenologists and palmists on SLC’s sense of humor, 336–37, 390–91, 397, 399–400, 624; publisher’s concern about humor in Innocents Abroad, 48; repetition of Monk-Greeley anecdote, 200–203; SLC’s disinterest, 332n; in tributes for SLC’s fiftieth birthday, 259–60. See also Practical jokes

  Hunt, Sylvia M., 122–27, 521–22

  Hunt, William, 13, 464–65

  Hutchinson, Ellen M., 503

  •Hutton, Eleanor Varnum Mitchell, 303, 582, 601, 618

  •Hutton, Laurence: biographical information, 573, 601; as guest at Onteora, 251; and Helen Keller, 279–80, 582; letter from SLC, 507–8; Susy on visit, 330

  Hymettus (Greek mountain), 238, 566

  Hypnotism. See Mesmerism

  The Idler (periodical), 553

  India: and Kipling, 175–77; SLC’s travel, 81, 651. See also Hinduism

  Indians. See Native Americans

  Ingersoll, Joseph R., 592

  “In God We Trust” motto, 226–27

  The Innocents Abroad: authorized and pirated English editions, 641; contract and publication, 48, 49, 486, 487, 650; copyright registered, 487, 585; delivery of manuscript, 180; Gray’s opinion, 156–57; invitation to write, 239; pictures noted, 14; Quaker City passengers, 17–18, 466; readers’ responses, 351, 434–35; sales and royalties, 48–49, 487, 488; SLC’s subsequent notoriety, 50, 488; Wilhelm II’s appreciation, 434. See also Quaker City excursion

  Insects: house-flies, 139, 219–22, 257–58, 428–29; mosquitoes and fleas, 220, 221, 428–29; spider, 138–39, 221, 428–29, 526–27; wasps and Jim Wolf, 261, 262–63; wasps’ nature, 139, 428–29, 526–27

  Insurance industry: graft, 115–16, 515; investigations, 59, 464, 493, 497; SLC’s investment, 55–56, 490–91

  International Copyright Act (U.S., 1891), 597

  International Typographical Union, 283, 584