Autobiography of Mark Twain
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“Why Not Abolish It?,” 647–48
Whyte, Frederic, 603
Wiggin, Kate. See Riggs, Kate Douglas Wiggin
Wilbur, Homer C., 234, 562–63
Wiley and Putnam, 597. See also Putnam, George Haven
Wilhelm II (emperor of Germany and king of Prussia): appreciation of SLC’s books, 310, 315, 431, 433–34; SLC’s dinner with, 309, 310–12, 430–32, 593–95
Wilhelmina (queen of the Netherlands), 444, 643
Wilkerson (fictional name of palm reader), 403, 404
Willard, Frances, 414, 629
William I (the Conqueror; king of England), 351
William IV (king of England), 228, 560
William Rufus (king of England), 351–52
Williams, Henry (father), 514
Williams, Henry Alston (son), 514
Williams, Richard, 113–14, 514
Williams, Theresa Ann Gillis, 514
Williams, Thomas E., 588
Williams, William, 549
Wilson, James H. (Ends of the Earth Club chairman), 226, 558
Wolf, Jim, 260–63, 589
Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, Lord, 157, 344–45, 537, 537–38
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), 362, 613
Women’s University Club, 14–18, 465–66
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 155, 350, 535–36, 536, 607
Wood, Howard Ogden, 511
Wood, Leonard, 9, 462
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge), 375–76, 617
Wootton, Francis H., 480
Wordsworth, William, 347
Work, Henry Clay, 591
Worth, Charles Frederick, 43, 483
Wright, Foster P. (judge), 151, 533
•Wright, Laura Mary (Mrs. Charles T. Dake), 531–32; fortune teller on romance with SLC, 404–5, 407, 408; letters to SLC (1906), 151, 211, 405, 533, 554; SLC’s reminiscences, 149–51, 211, 531–33
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 612
“Ye Sentimental Law Student,” 562, 567
York Harbor (Maine), 82, 97, 101, 506–8, 552
Young, Andrew, 587
Young, Warren, 12
Youngblood, William C., 211, 531, 532
Young Men’s Christian Association, 8–9, 462
“Yreka,” source of name, 118, 415, 517. See also Harte, Bret
Yung Wing, 551
Zodiac (astrology), 226, 558–59
The Clemenses’ house on Farmington Avenue, Hartford, winter 1880.
Clara as Lady Jane Grey and Margaret (Daisy) Warner as the pauper in the prince’s clothing for the Prince and the Pauper play, Hartford, March 1886. Photograph by Horace L. Bundy.
Onteora, New York, 1890: Carroll Beckwith, W. F. Clarke, Dora Wheeler, R. Heber Newton, Laurence Hutton, Mary Mapes Dodge, Candace Wheeler, Brander Matthews, Lillie Hamilton French, Eleanor V. Hutton, S. L. Clemens, and Mary Knight Wood. The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.
Susy and Samuel Clemens in costume after enacting the story of Hero and Leander, on the porch at Onteora, 1890.
Clemens and Laurence Hutton on the Huttons’ porch, Onteora, New York, 1890.
Carroll Beckwith and his portrait of Clemens, Onteora, New York, 1890.
Olivia, Samuel, and Clara Clemens, James B. Pond, and Mrs. Pond on the North American lecture tour, July- August 1895. Courtesy of Kevin Mac Donnell.
Susan Crane, Mrs. James B. Pond, James B. Pond, Jr., Susy Clemens, and the dogs, Osman and Bruce, at Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York, 15 September 1895. Photograph by James B. Pond. Mark Twain Archive, The Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College.
Clemens on the back lawn at Dollis Hill House, 1900.
Samuel and Olivia Clemens, Dollis Hill House, 1900: “Mamma and Papa under the oaks and beeches where we always sat and had our tea.” Photograph and description by Jean Clemens.
“The Lair” at Lower Saranac Lake, New York, 1901, “with a glimpse of the lake and the bathing-tent.” Photograph and description by Jean Clemens.
An unidentifed servant, Olivia, Clara, and Jean Clemens on the porch at “The Lair,” Lower Saranac Lake, 1901. Photograph by Frederick W. Rice.
Henry Huttleston Rogers.
H. H. Rogers’s mansion in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Samuel and Olivia Clemens on the porch at Quarry Farm, 1903. The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.
Clemens with John T. Lewis in Elmira, 1 July 1903. Photograph by Thomas E. Marr.
Clemens in the billiard room at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York,1905 or 1906. Photograph by Underwood and Underwood.
Katy Leary in Jean’s study, 21 Fifth Avenue, New York, January 1905. Photograph by Jean Clemens.
Josephine Hobby, Clemens’s stenographer and typist for the Autobiographical Dictations, in her automobile driving costume, Greenwich, Connecticut, ca. 1906. Courtesy of Sally Hobby Owen.
Alden birthday dinner, 10 November 1906: Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine; Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University; William Dean Howells, author and former editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harper’s Monthly; George Harvey, owner and editor of the North American Review and Harper’s Weekly; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, author and former editor of the Atlantic Monthly ; the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania; and Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic (Harper’s Weekly 50 [15 Dec 1906]: 1815).
Elisha Bliss, Jr., of the American Publishing Company, ca. 1879. Photograph by H. J. Rodgers. The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.
Frank Bliss of the American Publishing Company, 1890s. Photograph by DeLamater and Son. The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.
Charles L. Webster, 1884 (MTBus, facing 154).
Frederick A. Duneka, general manager of Harper and Brothers, at the Alden dinner, 10 November 1906 (Harper’s Weekly 50 [15 Dec 1906]: 1819).
Clemens and Joseph H. Twichell on the RMS Bermudian, January 1907. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.
Clemens and Twichell in Bermuda, January 1907. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.
Laura Wright at the age of sixteen, May 1861.
James Redpath in Kansas Territory in the 1850s as a correspondent for the New York Tribune. Kansas State Historical Society.
Captain Edgar (Ned) Wakeman and his wife, Mary Lincoln Wakeman. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Bret Harte in the late 1870s or early 1880s. Photograph by Napoleon Sarony.
Joel Chandler Harris, New York, 1906. Photograph by Underwood and Underwood.
Mollie and Orion Clemens, Keokuk, Iowa, 1897. Photograph by Wales Studio. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Four generations, 18 June 1882: Jane Lampton Clemens, Annie Moffett Webster, Jean Webster, and Pamela A. (Clemens) Moffett. Special Collections, Vassar College Library.
Clara Clemens, New York, ca. 1894. Photograph by Joseph Gaylord Gessford. The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.
Jean Clemens and “The Professor,” Kaltenleutgeben, Austria, 1898. Photograph by Fritz Knozer. The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.
Susy Clemens, Florence, 1892. Photograph by Mademoiselles Angiolini.