81. George Macdonald: Greville Macdonald, George Macdonald and His Wife (London, 1924), 457-58.
81. “Goodbye”: LL, 9.
81. “Said she never”: LL, 64.
82. “Not a bruise”: AU-1959, 187-88.
82. “I would have been crippled”: Bernard DeVoto, Mark Twain at Work (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), 26 (“Boy’s Manuscript”).
83. “The American Vandal Abroad”: A 52-page manuscript is in MTP; Speeches, 21-30, is a fragmentary version.
84. “I would like you”: F, 46.
84. “Splendid hit”: BM, 102.
84. “Congratulations”: SLC to JHT, Nov. 18, 1868, Cleveland (Yale).
84. “First faint symptom”: F, 48-49.
84. “The kingdom of heaven”: Edward Everett Hale, A New England Boyhood (Boston, 1927), 19. Other sources for the development and makeup of the lyceum system are: Paul Fatout, Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit (Bloomington, Ind., 1960); Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “The American Lecture System,” Macmillan’s Magazine, XVIII, May 1868, 48-56; Charles F. Horner, The Life of James B. Redpath (New York, 1926); R. B. Martin, ed., Charles Kingsley’s American Notes (Princeton, N. J., 1958); David Mead, Yankee Eloquence in the Middle West (East Lansing, Mich., 1951); “The Lyceum Lecture,” Nation, VIII, April 8, 1869; J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius (New York, 1900). Redpath’s promotional bulletin, The Lyceum (Boston, 1869-75), gives a direct index to the taste of the audiences. For example, among the 125 lecturers Redpath offered for the season 1869-70 there were 38 clergymen, 35 authorities on history and foreign travel, 18 women, and only 3 humorists. There were at least 6 humorists the following season.
86. “I could have cleared”: SLC to Jane Clemens, Dec. 10, 1868, New York (MTP).
86. “No man will dare more”: SLC to OLC, Jan. 15, 1870, Utica, N.Y. (MTP).
87. “The suspense grows”: W, XXIX, 162-63.
88. “My nerves”: LL, 137.
88. In Iowa City: LL, 52-53. The Iowa City Republican’s account and review (“We would not give two cents to hear him again”) are quoted in Fred W. Lorch, “Mark Twain in Iowa,” Iowa Journal of History and Politics, XXVII (1929), 507-47.
89. “From what standard”: F, 53.
89. Nativity passage: F, 59-60.
89. “Their reverent spirit”: F, 63n.
89. “Poor girl”: F, 63.
90. “I want the public”: F, 67n.
90. “Much of my conduct”: LL, 37.
90. “I know of nothing”: LL, 60.
90. “As far as I am concerned”: LL, 66.
91. “The world’s ‘mill’”: LL, 26.
91. “Parton thinks”: Memories of a Hostess, ed. M. A. DeWolfe Howe (Boston, 1922), III.
92. “It may be a good while”: LL, 64.
92. “The long siege”: SLC to OLC, Mar. 4, 1869, Lockport, N. Y. (MTP).
93n. “It pains me”: LL, 76. “No reading matter for girls”: Letters of Sigmund Freud (New York, 1960), 44.
93. In its margins: Bradford Booth, “Mark Twain’s Comments on Holmes’s Autocrat,” AL, XXI, No. 4 (January 1950), 456-63.
Chapter Five (pages 94–116)
94. “My blood curdled”: LL, 68-69. A later (ca. 1887), extended comment by SLC on the Langdon coal business is published as “Letter to the Earth” in Letters from the Earth (New York, 1962), 117-22.
95. “Pick and choice”: Buffalo Express, Nov. 13, 1869.
95n. American business elite: See Irvin G. Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches (New Brunswick, N. J., 1954), 24. “Most remarkable phenomenon”: James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (London, 1888), II, 616.
97. “Day before yesterday”: LL, 108-9.
97. “The old gentleman”: SLC to WR, June 15, 1869 (MTP).
97. “I cannot help thinking”: Pamela Moffett to Mollie Clemens, June 23, 1870, Fredonia, N. Y. (MTP).
99. “Both of us”: SLC to OLC, Feb. 15, 1869, Ravenna, O. (MTP).
99. “I can buy”: SLC to JHT, “St. Valentine’s, 1869,” Ravenna, O. (MTP).
99. “Never heard anybody”: LL, 123-24; Nasby answered that “a very great many people had very convincing proofs” that Bowles was a dog.
100. “I feel ashamed”: L, 158.
100. “You seem to think”: SLC to Pamela Moffett, June 25, 1869, New York (MTP).
100. “My expenses”: SLC to Jane Clemens and Pamela Moffett, June 26, 1869, Elmira (Moffett-MTP).
102. “Nearly every purple”: SLC to OLC, May 13, 1869, Hartford (MTP).
102. “Tiresome book”: F, 98.
103. “Thirty times a day”: AU-1959, 158-59.
103. “Been delayed”: EB to SLC, July 12, 1869, Hartford (MTP).
103. “All I desire”: SLC to EB, July 22, 1869, Elmira (Yale).
104. “Ill nature”: SLC to EB, Aug. 12, 1869, Buffalo (MTP).
104. “You will hereafter”: EB to SLC, Aug. 4, 1869, Hartford (MTP).
104. “It will sell”: SLC to EB, Aug. 12, 1869, Buffalo (MTP). Bliss’s promotional techniques and the publishing history of The Innocents Abroad are discussed in: Leon T. Dickinson, “Marketing a Best Seller,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, XLI (1947); Hamlin Hill, “Mark Twain’s Book Sales, 1869-1879,” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, LXV, No. 6 (June 1961), 371-89; Hamlin Hill, “Mark Twain’s Quarrels with Elisha Bliss,” AL, XXXIII, No. 4 (January 1962), 442-56.
105. “I only expected”: SLC to F. S. Drake, Dec. 26, 1870, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL).
106. “My new book”: SLC to WR, Aug. 15, 1869, Buffalo (MTP).
106. “I was afraid”: SLC to WR, Sept. 7, 1869, Buffalo (MTP).
107. “Sharp, twinkling Yankee”: O. W. Holmes to SLC, Sept. 26, 1869, Boston (MTP); in part in L, 166-67.
108. “I hadn’t any”: SLC to O. W. Holmes, Sept. 30, 1869, Buffalo (Library of Congress).
108. “My book is waltzing me”: F, 114.
109. “Insultingly contemptuous”: LL, 131-32.
109. “Patchwork editorials”: LL, 105.
110. “Little dearie”: LL, 105.
110. “A sort of itching”: F, 108.
111. “The surprising fact”: AU-1959, 272-73.
111. Howells’memory: MMT, 3-4.
112. “Between you and I”: LL, 41.
112. “I published”: L, 170-71.
114. “Mr. Langdon”: JHT, “Mark Twain,” Harper’s, May 1896.
114. “My first, and Oldest”: Bowen, 18-21.
115. “Pay no attention”: SLC’s copy of the return is in MTP; OLC told her mother that this return was “a matter of most intense anxiety to him, he could not possibly comprehend it” (LL, 146).
115. “A Mysterious Visit”: Mark Twain’s Sketches (Hartford, 1875), 316-20.
Chapter Six (pages 117–138)
118. “A lovely wife”: L, 172-73.
118. “No argument”: LL, 135.
118. “I can’t sell myself”: Memories of a Hostess, ed. M. A. DeWolfe Howe (Boston, 1922), 245-46. See also SLC, “Smoking as Inspiration,” in Life as I Find It, 202-3.
119. “Maybe it will be several years”: SLC to EB, Jan. 22, 1870, Elmira (type-script in Berg-NYPL).
120. “I give you my word”: F. L. Mott, A History of American Magazines (Cambridge, Mass., 1938), III, 364.
120. “Higher class writing”: SLC to EB, Mar. 11, 1870, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL).
121. “My noddings”: AU-1924, II, 114.
121. Trip to Washington: LL, 154.
121. Orion’s memorandum book: L, 175.
122. “I am sitting still”: SLC to Orion, Nov. 11, 1870, Buffalo (Moffett—MTP). SLC told Orion the expenses at Delaware Ave., including doctors, nurses, and insurance, were about $1,000 a month.
123. “That is the only thing”: SLC to F. S. Drake, Dec. 26, 1870, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL).
123. “Among the blackest”: Eruption, 250-52.
124. “Brimful of fame”: SLC to EB, Nov. 28, 1870, Buffalo (MTP).
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sp; 125. “He was full of hope”: W, IV, 148.
126. “Pet scheme”: Colophon, XIII, March 1933.
127. “Your letters”: SLC to JHR, Mar. 3, 1871, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL). JHR had written to SLC from London on Jan. 22 (MTP) and had enclosed the first installment of his travel journal (MTP). The next installment of the journal, sent from Capetown around Mar. 23, told the story of the Gambia running aground (MTP).
127. “Diamond fever”: SLC to JHR, Oct. 9, 1871, Hartford (Berg-NYPL).
128. “I shall employ”: SLC to JHR, Jan. 4, 1872, Dayton, O. (Berg-NYPL).
128. “Simple contest”: JHR to SLC, May 16, 1872, Philadelphia (MTP).
129. “Given to Riley”: Notebook No. 30, MTP.
129. “Rose diamond”: W, XXI, 375.
129. “Do you know”: SLC to JHR, Mar. 3, 1871, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL).
130. Halley’s comet: These comparisons occur in SLCs accounts, in Charles Warren Stoddard’s Exits and Entrances (Boston, 1903), 252-53, and in WDH’s extended account in “Editor’s Easy Chair,” Harper’s, CVIII, December 1903.
130. “He spent a week”: LinL, I, 251.
131. “Some bummer”: SLC to WR, Feb. 22, 1871, Buffalo (MTP).
131. “I am pegging away”: F, 153.
132. “Plagiarism B.H.”: John Hay to SLC, Jan. 9, 1871, New York (MTP).
132. “Will you please correct”: The exchange of letters is in L, 181-84, and Ferris Greenslet, Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston, 1908), 95-99.
132. “Shady and quiet”: SLC to Orion, Mar. 11, 1871, Buffalo (MTP).
134. “Beetling Alps of trouble”: SLC to Orion, Mar. 15, 1871, Buffalo (MTP).
135. “Absolute frenzy—desperation”: SLC to EB, Mar. 17, 1871, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL).
135. “It will not be needed”: SLC to Orion, Mar. 10, 1871, Buffalo (Berg-NYPL).
135. “No fool of a job”: L, 186.
136. “By all odds”: SLC to EB, April 20, 1871, Elmira (MTP).
136. “Wave of the rider’s hand”: W, III, 54.
136. “Red-hot interest”: L, 187-88.
137. “We had often longed”: W, III, 241.
Chapter Seven (pages 139–155)
139. “John Bunyan’s heaven”: MTH, 534. The quotation by Henry James is from his Hawthorne (1879). Kenneth Andrews’ Nook Farm (Cambridge, Mass., 1950) is an invaluable study of the complex social and intellectual “machinery” of SLC’s Hartford circle.
141. “A sort of suburban grove”: LinL, I, 187.
142. “Without really intending”: SLC to James Redpath, June 10, 1871, Elmira (New-York Historical Soc.).
142. “Tip-top lecture”: F, 157.
143. “I do hope”: LL, 164.
143. “We will either board”: LL, 168-69.
144. “A Boston literary lunch”: MMT, 6-7. I have also drawn on WDH’S accopnt in LinL, I, 157.
145. Less than perfect harmony: Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Crowding Memories (Boston, 1920), 127-32. In AU-1959, 357-67, SLC talks about her and the Portsmouth memorial to Aldrich.
146. “Demeaning myself”: Paine, 786.
146. “Ethiopian minstrels”: MaryThacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Boston, 1914), 259-60.
146. Letter to the N. Y. Tribune: Mar. 10, 1873. “H.K.’s” answer appeared the next day.
146. Holland: His attacks ran in the March 1871, April 1871, February 1872, and July 1872 issues of the magazine. SLC’s “An Appeal from One That Is Persecuted” is in Berg—NYPL.
147. “A useful trade”: Hartford Courant, June 29, 1888.
148. “So you will see”: SLC to Annie Moffett, May 17, 1872, Elmira (MTP). SLC said he and OLC each had about $30,000 in the bank.
148. “They like a book about America”: SLC to EB, Mar. 20, 1872, Elmira (MTP).
149. “I am as uplifted”: MTH, 10-11. In MMT, 3, WDH mistakenly recalled this as SLC’s thank-you for the Atlantic’s review of The Innocents Abroad and explained that “the mock modesty of print” forbade his quoting from the letter.
149. “If she behaves herself”: FBH to SLC, Apr. 1, 1872, New York (MTP).
149. “Always felt shame”: AU-1959, 190.
149. “I killed him”: MMT, 11-12.
149. “All tenderness”: Lilly Warner to George Warner, June 3, 1872, Hartford (Warner cycle, MTP).
150. “Not lisle thread”: SLC to Mollie Clemens, Aug. 2, 1872, Saybrook, Conn. (MTP).
150. “My idea is this”: L, 196-97. “Swift Death to Chilblains”: SLC to Orion and Mollie, Feb. 2, 1893, Florence (MTP). Steam brake: SLC to Orion, Sept. 16, 1871, Elmira (MTP). Drilling block: Orion to SLC, Sept. 22, 1871, Hartford (MTP). On Mar. 3, 1873, SLC signed an enthusiastic letter of testimonial for another “humanizing” invention, “White’s Portable Folding Fly and Musketo Net Frame.” “We shall see the summer day come,” he wrote, “when we shall all sit under our nets in church and slumber peacefully, while the discomfited flies club together and take it out of the minister” (manufacturer’s circular, Yale).
151. “The clockmaker”: Orion to Mollie Clemens, Oct. 23, 1871, Hartford (MTP).
151. “I am contented”: F, 164.
151. “I am standing”: LL, 176.
152. Vogue for American humor: Discussed in Clarence Gohdes, American Literature in Nineteenth Century England (New York, 1944), 83-94. SLC’s reciprocal Anglomania (as WDH called it) is traced in H. G. Baetzhold, “Mark Twain: England’s Advocate,” AL, XXVIII, No. 3 (November 1956), 328-46.
153. “I was a lion”: LL, 178-79.
153. “Always has my books”: LL, 181-82.
154. Mere slip of the tongue: Moncure D. Conway, Autobiography (Boston, 1904), II, 143. The revised text is in Speeches, 37-41.
154. “In this day”: Speeches, 131-32.
155. A “puppy”: SLC to OLC, Oct. 25, 1872, London (MTP).
Chapter Eight (pages 156–172)
156. “Worth any money”: Boston Transcript, Nov. 26, 1872.
157. Jay Gould: Eruption, 77.
158. “Sam says Livy”: NF, 39.
158. “The present era”: SLC to Orion, Mar. 27, 1875, Hartford (MTP).
159. “Was reporter”: L, 542.
160. “In the superstition”: Paine, 477.
161. “I think you don’t like”: F, 184.
161. “My climax chapter” : F, 171.
162. “I think I can say”: Speeches, 35.
163. “I’ll take you down”: Cable’s notes of the conversation (Cable Coll., Tulane Univ.) are published in Arlin Turner, “James Lampton … ,” Modern Language Notes, LXX, December 1955, 592-94.
164. “Up to the time”: MTH, 13.
165. “The American character”: MTH, 479.
165. “I think that the reason”: “What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us” (W, XXII, 162).
165. “A pathetic and beautiful spirit”: AU-1959, 19.
167. “Putrid anecdote”: SLC to WR, Mar. 28, 1873, Hartford (MTP).
167. “Splendid sendoff”: SLC to WR, early April 1873 (MTP).
167. “Contemptible cur”: SLC to C. D. Warner, May 1873, “Under way” (MTP).
168. “But for the Panic”: L, 215.
168. One night in London: OLC describes SLC’s state of mind in a letter to her mother from London, September 1873 (MTP).
168. “Wicked, ungodly suffrage”: Memories of a Hostess, ed. M. A. DeWolfe Howe (Boston, 1922), 251-53.
169. “Tell your mother”: F, 208-9.
169. “Driftwood of the Deluge”: J. T. Goodman to SLC, Oct. 24, 1881 (MTP).
169. “A man can’t write”: MTH, 248-49.
171. “A farewell letter”: L, 204-5.
171. “In England”: MMT, 46.
171. “If I’m not homesick”: LL, 186.
171. “In Salisbury”: LL, 189.
172. “Scotch whisky”: LL, 190.
172. Stoddard: Exits and Entrances (Boston, 1903), 61-74.
Chapter Nine (pages 173–187)
173. Visit to Nook Farm: Mrs. T.
B. Aldrich, Crowding Memories (Boston, 1920), 143-60; MMT, 5, 7-8.
175. “Busiest white man”: F, 183-84.
176. “You are aging”: SLC to Orion, May 10 or 11, 1874, Elmira (MTP).
176. “Keeping up appearances”: SLC to Jane Clemens, May 10, 1874, Elmira (MTP). SLC voiced his general exasperation with Orion in L, 245-46.
176. “This oath”: Jane Clemens to Orion, ca. November 1873, Fredonia, N.Y. (MTP).
176. “I grieve”: SLC to Orion, Feb. 4, 1874 Hartford (MTP).
177. Bowers
AU-1959, 229-30. Frank Fuller’s letters to SLC between May 1877 and February 1878 (MTP) corroborate SLC’s account.
177. “This wondrous establishment”: SLC to OLC, Apr. 26, 1877, Baltimore (MTP); SLC appears to have confused the owner of the house, Thomas De Kay Winans, with his father, Ross Winans.
178. “I spread the study”: L, 295.
179. “Boyhood & youth”: quoted in Hamlin Hill, “The Composition and Structure of Tom Sawyer ” AL, XXXII, No. 4 (January 1961), 386. The manuscript is in the Riggs Memorial Library, Georgetown Univ.
179. “So I knocked off”: L, 224.
179. “One-horse men”: MTH, 91-92.
180 “No plot”: MTH, 87.
180. “Not a boy’s book”: MTH, 91.
180. “A book for boys”: MTH, 112.
181. “Kept the True Story”: MTH, 24.
181. “No humor in it”: MTH, 22.
182. “Charming visit”: MTH, 70. Young John Howells is quoted in Paine, 572-73.
182. “Fat and boozy”: MTH, 72.
183. “Palace of Sham”: F, 195.
183. “Home of Mark Twain”: Paine, 691-92.
184. “No use”: MTH, 33-34.
184. “Cut it”: MTH, 42.
184. “The piece”: MTH, 42-43.
184. “Memory and imagination”: SLC quoted Hay in MTH, 55. Hay’s opinion of The Innocents Abroad is quoted in John Bigelow, Recollections (New York, 1913), IV, 478-79.
185. Setting out on foot: MMT, 45; Eruption, 366-72: the telegrams are quoted in MTH, 36n.
186. “Make a body sick”: SLC to “Dear Livy,” MTH, 37-40.
187. Back in Boston: Arthur Gilman, “Atlantic Dinners and Diners,” Atlantic, C, November 1907, 650-51.
Chapter Ten (pages 188–211)
188. “Mr. Beecher”: Marginal comment (92-93) in SLC’s copy of Griswold, Sixty Years with Plymouth Church (MTP).
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