Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Rutland (Vt.) Globe, 22, 470–71

  Sable Brothers (minstrel troupe), 588

  Sacramento Union, 38, 239, 481, 567, 641, 650

  Sage, Dean: biographical information, 536, 573 acquaintances, 251, 271; and Beecher trial, 574; practical joke on Twichell, 253–55, 574; and SLC’s Date 1601, 156

  Sage, Henry W., 479, 480, 536, 574

  Saint Bartholomew’s Day, 134, 534

  Sala, George Augustus, 642

  Salt Lake City (Utah), 37–38

  Samossoud, Clara Clemens. See Clemens, Clara Langdon

  Samossoud, Jacques, 655

  Sanders, Burton, 325–26

  Sandwich Islands: and Hornet disaster, 435, 641; SLC’s lectures, 38–40, 200, 280, 481–82, 553, 583; SLC’s letters for Sacramento Union, 38, 239, 567, 650

  San Francisco: restaurants, 324, 599–600; SLC’s acquaintances and activities, 113, 118, 380–81, 514, 588; SLC’s arrival and departure, 20–21, 38, 46, 468, 470, 512; SLC’s experience of earthquake (1865), 112, 513; SLC’s journalism, 111–17, 239, 513–15 549, 567, 588, 621; SLC’s lectures, 38, 200, 481, 553; SLC’s visit (1868), 512; treatment of Chinese, 115, 515; U.S. Mint, 117–19, 517. See also San Francisco earthquake and fire (1906)

  San Francisco Alta California, 193, 514, 549, 550, 588

  San Francisco Chronicle, 479, 632

  San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 513, 621

  San Francisco earthquake and fire (1906), 110–14, 117, 191–92, 245–46, 512–14, 516, 599, 621

  San Francisco Evening Bulletin, 46, 484

  San Francisco Minstrel Troupe, 588

  San Francisco Morning Call: building, 117–18, 516–17; rumor of SLC’s second marriage, 565; SLC as local reporter, 114–17, 239, 514–15, 567, 621

  San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, 517

  Sargent, Epes, 588

  Sartain, John, 562–63

  Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, 234, 562–63

  Saturday Evening Post, 540

  Saturday Morning Club, 419, 633

  Saturday Press, 47, 485, 562, 650

  Saturday Review, 475

  Saunders, Millard, 630

  Savage, Richard, 642

  Savage Club (London), 435–36, 640–41, 642

  Savarre, L. (called Savarin), 43, 483

  Savoy Hotel (N.Y.), 558

  Schaefer, Jacob, Sr., 384, 622

  Schiller, Friedrich, 566

  Schofield, John McAllister, 70, 496

  Schooler, Martha (Patsy; SLC’s mother’s grandmother), 627

  “Schoolhouse Hill,” 552, 588, 589

  Schubert, Franz, 618

  Scipio, Publius Cornelius Africanus, 330

  Scotia (ship), 641

  Scott, Frank M., 73–76, 498–99

  Scovel (telephone man), 198–99

  “Scraps from My Autobiography,” 576, 659–60

  Scribners (Charles Scribner’s sons, publishers), 62, 148

  Scribner’s Monthly, 572, 635, 638

  Sears, Joseph H., 564

  Selkirk, Alexander, 109, 512

  Sellers, Isaiah, 230, 562

  Sembrich, Marcella, 111–12, 512, 513

  Senlac, battle of, 180, 546

  Seventeenth Amendment (U.S. Constitution), 623

  Shakespeare, William: folio edition discovered, 410–12, 628; Ireland’s forgeries, 247, 570–71; and palmistry, 390; and SLC’s Date 1601, 155–56, 537; and spelling, 277

  REFERENCES: “age has not withered . . .” (Antony and Cleopatra), 19; “feed fat the ancient grudge . . .” (The Merchant of Venice), 62, 158, 494, 538

  Shaw, Henry Wheeler (Josh Billings), 153, 485, 534

  Sheldon, George R. (president of the Union League), 389, 624

  Sheridan, Irene Rucker, 464

  Sheridan, Philip Henry, 13, 70, 181, 464, 500

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 62, 13, 70, 302, 464, 494, 496, 591

  Sherry, Margaret (nurse), 102, 104, 107, 509

  Sherry’s Restaurant (N.Y.), 272, 579

  Shillaber, B. P., 153, 535

  Shrady, George F., 66, 255, 495

  Sikes, William Wirt, 45

  Simms, William Gilmore, 563

  Simmons (mesmerist), 298–300

  “A Simplified Alphabet,” 578

  Simplified Spelling: early movement (1883), 275, 581; later movement (1906), 273–74, 578, 580; SLC’s sketch set in Egypt, 266–69, 578; SLC’s speech to Associated Press, 245–46, 274–77, 563–64, 569

  Sinclair, Upton, 116, 515–16

  1601. See Date 1601

  “Skeleton Novelette” (planned by Howells and SLC), 548

  Sketches, New and Old, 53, 542, 602, 641, 650

  Skinner, Otis, 466–67

  Slavery: abolitionists, 255–56, 464, 573–75, 584; African, 461, 529; undesirable work as, 316–17

  Slee, John D. F., 56, 491

  Slosson, George F., 622

  Slote, Daniel, 55, 489–90

  Slote, Woodman and Company, 55, 490

  Smalley, George W., 432, 640

  Smarr, Sam, 590

  Smiles, Samuel, 586

  Smith, Elizabeth W. (Aunt Betsey), 296–97, 588

  Smith, F. Hopkinson, 271–72, 579–80

  Smith, George, 523

  Smith, Joseph (Mormon), 247, 571

  Smith, Joseph Lindon, 200, 203, 214–15, 553, 555–56

  Smith, Roswell, 61, 63

  Smith College, 16, 17, 465

  Smoking, 66, 258, 405–6, 409

  Sneider, Charles, 489

  Snodgrass letters, 231 563

  Socialist Revolutionary Party, 564

  Solberg, Thorvald, 286, 585

  “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion,” 549, 551, 611–12

  Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, 623

  South Africa, 81, 175, 543. See also Boer War

  Spain 145, 189–90, 547

  Sparhawk (mesmerist), 589

  Spaulding, Clara L., 166, 225, 540, 556

  Spaulding, John S., 582

  Spelling. See Cacography; Simplified Spelling; Clemens, Olivia Susan, biography of SLC

  Spencer, Herbert, 392, 625

  Spenser, Edmund, 277

  Sperling, Capt., 438–40, 443

  “Spontaneous oratory.” See Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: PET SCHEMES

  Standard Oil Company, 159, 161, 504, 564, 582, 623, 651

  Stanley, Henry M., 280, 436, 583, 642

  Stationers’ Company (London), 605

  Statute of Anne (Britain, 1710), 605

  Stead, William T., 336–37, 390, 604, 624

  •Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 78, 376, 503, 504, 618

  Steele, Henry Milford, 426, 638

  Stengel-Sembrich, Guillaume 111–12, 512

  Stephen of Blois (later king of England), 351, 365–67, 614

  Stephenson, George, 289, 586

  Stevens, Ed, 545

  Stewart, William M., 180–81

  St. James Hotel (N.Y.), 42, 55–56, 423, 482, 491

  St. Louis (Mo.): Barret family home, 609–10; government corruption, 116, 525; James Ross Clemens home, 11, 463; Moffett family home, 492, 588, 627, 653; newspapers and journals mentioned, 230, 561, 588–89 (see also titles of newspapers); SLC’s last visit, 532, 651; SLC’s lecture (1867), 280, 583; SLC takes mother to minstrel show, 296–97; mentioned, 10, 237, 408, 532, 649

  St. Louis Missouri Democrat, 280, 583

  St. Louis Missouri Republican, 561

  St. Louis Reveille, 588, 589

  St. Nicholas (periodical), 572, 573

  Stockbridge, Anne W., 246, 548, 569, 570

  Stockbridge, William H., 246, 569

  Stockton, Francis R., 247, 250, 259, 260, 572, 575–76

  Stoddard, Charles Warren, 118

  Stoddard, Richard H., 563

  Stoker, Dick, 621, 636

  The Stolen White Elephant, Etc., 54, 489, 551

  Stone, Bessie, 346, 355–56, 609

  Stone, Melville, 564

  St
ormfield (Clemenses’ house in Redding, Conn.), 509, 579, 652, 656

  Story, William Wetmore, 593

  Stowe, Charles, 606

  Stowe, Eliza Tyler, 341, 606

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 225, 339, 341, 441–42, 605–6

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Harriet’s daughter), 341, 606

  Suetonius, 365, 614

  Sullivan, Annie. See Macy, Annie Sullivan

  Sullivan, Arthur, 333, 537, 560, 603

  Sullivan, Marion Dix, 588

  Sulzberger, Cyrus L., 607

  Sumner, Charles, 13, 464

  Sutton, George H., 384–85, 622

  Swain, Robert B., 118, 119, 517

  Swift, Jonathan, 271, 579

  Switzerland, 225 651

  Sylva, Carmen (Elisabeth of Romania), 97–98, 507

  Talcott Mountain (Bartlett Tower), 156, 536

  “Taming the Bicycle,” 575

  Tammany Hall, 362, 464, 609, 612–13. See also Tweed, William M.

  Tate, Henry, 560

  Tate Gallery (London), 560

  Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard von (father), 323, 599

  Tauchnitz, Christian Karl Bernhard von (son), 323, 599

  Taylor, Bayard, 34, 417, 477, 553, 563, 631

  Telephone: scarcity in London, 448–49; SLC’s first, in Hartford house, 56–57, 354, 491–92; trouble with, 98–99; value as invention, 446–47

  Telharmonium, 447, 645

  Teller, Charlotte (Mrs. Johnson, later Mrs. Hirsch), 236, 564–65

  Tennessee land, of Clemens family, 21, 469

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 360–61, 612

  Terry, Ellen, 19, 467, 560

  Terwilliger, Horace K., 568

  Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit, 454, 647

  Thiele, Miss, 439, 443

  The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, 596

  Thompson, Annie Weeks (Mrs. Frank Fuller), 40–42, 482

  Thompson, Jacob H., 40, 42, 482

  Thomson, Mortimer (Q. K. Philander Doesticks), 153, 535

  Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, 215, 556

  “Those Extraordinary Twins,” 588

  “Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes,” 196, 552

  Thring (called Thwing), Henry, Lord, 288, 290–91, 339, 341, 586–87

  Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 569, 571

  Tiffany, Louise Comfort (Mrs. Rodman Gilder), 569

  Tiffany and Company, 633

  Tilden, Samuel J., 424–25, 519, 636–37

  Tile Club, 579–80

  Tillman, Benjamin, 3, 12, 457–58

  Tilton, Elizabeth, 573

  Tilton, Theodore, 573–74

  Timothy (coachman), 542

  Tobin, Miss, 100–102

  Tom Sawyer. See The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Tom Sawyer Abroad, 477

  “Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy,” 545, 590

  “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” 651

  The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, 543, 651

  A Tramp Abroad: contents and characters, 16, 465, 539, 639; contract and publication, 51–52, 488, 651; Howells’s review, 602; sales and royalties, 52, 488; Wilhelm II’s appreciation, 431, 433–34

  Travelers Accident Insurance Company, 55

  Tremont Hotel (Boston), 256

  Trevelyan, G.O., 586

  A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime, 489

  “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It,” 542

  Trumbull, James Hammond: characterized by SLC, 412–13, 629; and SLC’s idea for a play, 19–20, 467–68

  Turner, Emily, 646

  Turner, George Enoch, 238–39, 566

  Turner, Louisa, 646

  “The Turning Point of My Life,” 565

  Tuskegee Institute, 8, 460–62

  Tweed, William M. (“Boss”), 13, 388, 462, 464–65. See also Tammany Hall

  •Twichell, Joseph H.: biographical information, 465, 511; bicycling, 258, 575; Clara visited by, 152; and Date 1601, 155–56; handsomeness, 161; officiating at funerals, 108, 576; “Peters” alias, 194, 360, 612; Sage’s practical joke, 253–55, 574; school days, 360, 611; and Wakeman, 192, 194–95, 551

  FRIENDSHIP WITH SLC: Bermuda trips, 359–60, 611–12; correspondence, 103–7, 508, 510, 551; SLC’s gratitude, 160; SLC’s “Luck” based on report, 157, 344, 537; SLC’s sixty-seventh birthday dinner, 105, 510; travels in Germany, 15, 16, 181–82, 465, 546; walk to Bartlett (Talcott) Tower, 156, 536; walk to Boston, 380, 620, 643–44

  Twichell, Julia Curtis ( Judy), 107, 511

  Twichell, Julia Harmony Cushman, 546

  Typewriter, 445–47, 643–45

  Underwood Johnson. See Johnson, Robert Underwood

  Union League Club (N.Y.), 387–90, 410, 622, 622–24

  Uniontown Northern Californian, 518

  Upton House. See Dublin (N.H.)

  U.S. Congress (House and Senate): Barnes’s appointment, 6, 11–12, 460; direct election of senators, 623; Grant’s pension and title restored, 70, 496; John Marshall Monument Fund authorized, 593; pension bills, 372–74, 431, 615–17; presidential election (1876), 636–37; Simplified Spelling, 580; SLC’s opinion of senators, 55–56, 387–88, 409–10, 490–91, 497, 622–23. See also Copyright

  U.S. Constitution, 314, 322, 337, 599, 623

  U.S. Mint (San Francisco), 117–19, 517

  U.S. State Department, 8, 461

  U.S. Steel Corporation, 505

  U.S. Supreme Court, 308–9, 480, 592–93, 621–22

  Utah Territory, 37–38

  Vanderbilt family, 116

  Van de Velde, Arthur, 635–36

  Van de Velde, Hydeline de Seigneux, 635–36

  van Dyke, Henry, 462, 510

  Vassar College, 15–17, 465–66

  Versen, Alice Clemens von, 593–94

  Versen, Maximilian von, 432, 593–94

  Vesuvius, Mount, 109–10, 512

  Victoria (empress dowager of Prussia), 432

  Victoria (queen of England): favorite recitations, 556; Jubilee, 134, 525; SLC’s “Petition,” 179–80, 545–46; mentioned, 352, 559, 599

  Vienna (Austria): Clara’s piano study, 509, 655; Clemenses’ stay, 27, 80, 81, 162, 448, 651, 99, 162, 473, 507; Hotel Krantz, 227–28, 559; Hotel Metropole, 507; and Lindau, 312, 594; mesmerism incident, 304–6, 591–92; SLC’s works composed, 574, 602

  Villa di Quarto. See Florence

  “Villagers of 1840–3,” 626

  Virginia: letter from SLC admirer, 351; Old Point Comfort resort, 100, 107, 508; Richmond Theatre burned, 301–3, 591; Virginians living in Hannibal, 301–3, 590

  Virginia City (Nev.): ball, 24, 471; SLC’s acquaintances, 481, 484, 514; SLC’s arrival and departure, 468, 567

  Virginia City Territorial Enterprise: SLC as reporter, 5, 238–39, 458, 567; SLC’s “Josh” letters, 562, 566–67, 649; SLC’s sketches, 485, 513. See also Goodman, Joseph T.

  Virginia City Union. See Fitch, Thomas

  Wagner, Richard, 164, 294, 539

  •Wakeman, Edgar (Ned): biographical information, 193, 548–49; as inspiration for SLC’s writing, 192–94, 198, 549–51; SLC’s appeal for financial aid, 193, 550; spelling, 195, 413; and Twichell, 192, 194–95, 551; WORK: The Log of an Ancient Mariner, 549

  •Wakeman, Mary E. Lincoln, 193, 549

  Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (N.Y.), 32, 477, 563–64, 595, 640

  Walpole, Horace, 247, 570

  Walters, William Thompson, 77, 502

  Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), 502

  Wambold, David, 293–94, 588

  Ward, Artemus (Charles Farrar Browne), 46, 153, 484, 484–85

  Ward, Ferdinand, 61–62, 66–67

  Ward, John, 411, 628

  Ward, Lewis P., 113, 514

  Warner, Charles Dudley: death, 260, 576; family, 540; and the Fiskes, 34–35, 477–49; guest at Onteora, 251; on Susy and Clara, 224; tribute for SLC’s fiftieth birthday, 259, 260, 575, 577, 578; WORK: The Gilded Age (with SLC), 533, 641, 650

  Warner, Elisabeth Gillette (Lilly; Mrs. George H. Warn
er), 331, 540, 557, 602

  Warner, Frank, 166, 333, 540

  Warner, George H., 165–66, 176–77, 540

  Warner, Susan (Susy; Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner), 34, 251, 330, 333, 478, 602

  •Warner, Margaret (Daisy), 333, 602

  “The War-Prayer,” 526, 651

  Washington (D.C.): Clara’s public singing, 567; John Marshall Monument, 306, 308–9, 592–93; proposed murals for Capitol, 535; SLC’s visits, 8, 180, 461. See also Copyright; U.S. Congress

  Washington, Booker T., 8, 414–15, 460–61

  Washington, George, 9, 335, 496, 589

  Washington Evening Star, 6–7, 12

  Washington Ladies’ Literary Association, 597–98

  Washington Post, 572, 576

  “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?,” 83–96, 103–4, 107, 506

  Wasps. See Insects

  Watt, James, 586

  W.C.T.U. (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union), 362, 613

  Webb, Charles H.: biographical information, 484; Californian contributions, 118; The Celebrated Jumping Frog published, 46–48, 49–50, 143, 485, 487–88

  •Webster, Annie Moffett (SLC’s niece), 21, 469, 489, 492, 494, 653

  •Webster, Charles L.: biographical information, 21, 77–78, 492, 496, 502–3; and bookkeeper’s embezzlement, 73–76, 499; books acquired or rejected, 76–77, 78, 499–502; characterized by SLC, 58–59, 64–66, 68, 73–77, 497–98, 505; Jewish ancestry suggested, 69, 496; salary, 54, 57–58, 64, 65, 493, 494, 495, 499; and SLC’s patents, 54, 57, 489–90. See also Charles L. Webster and Company

  Webster, Samuel Charles, 494–95, 498

  Wells, Samuel R., 335, 604

  Wenneberg, Mrs., 439, 443

  West Point Military Academy, 72, 155, 157, 496, 497, 535–36

  What Cheer House (San Francisco), 324, 599

  What Is Man?: composition and publication, 332, 399, 527, 602–3, 625, 652; SLC dictation that reprises philosophy, 140–43, 527

  “‘What Ought He to Have Done?’: Mark Twain’s Opinion,” 328–29, 600–601

  •Wheeler, Candace, 247, 571

  •Wheeler, Dora, 247, 571

  “Which Was It?,” 196, 552

  Whitcher, Frances Miriam Berry (Widow Bedott), 45, 483

  White, Andrew Dickson, 33, 477, 478, 479–80

  White, Cool, 588

  White, Stanford, 429, 454–56, 607, 647

  Whiteley, William, 447–52, 645–46

  Whitford, Daniel: biographical information, 493; characterized by SLC, 59, 66, 75, 493; and Webster’s employment contracts, 58, 59, 64, 78, 495, 503

  Whitman, Walt, 13, 464, 619

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 339

  The Whole Family (collaborative novel), 190, 547–48