Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

by Justin Kaplan

  330. “I should think”: LL, 309.

  330. “My first duty”: LL, 306.

  331. “Thunder clap”: L, 617-18; Paine omits the sentence about “convenience for the dogs”; the manuscript letter is in Berg—NYPL.

  331. He sent Rogers: SLC to HHR, Dec. 22, 1894, Paris (Berg—NYPL).

  332. “All my Life”: L, 621-22.

  332. Five-franc piece: OLC tells this in a letter to Susan Crane (Paris, Feb. 2, 1895) in Paine, 996.

  332. “It seemed”: LL, 312.

  333. “She was brimming with life”: MTH, 663.

  334. Friends all over the United States: SLC to S. E. Moffett, Aug. 15, 1895, Vancouver (MTP); published in J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius (New York, 1900), 225.

  334. “Arrive next January”: L, 629.

  334. Told Henry Harper: SLC’s letter is printed in J. Henry Harper, The House of Harper (New York, 1912), 575-76.

  334. “George Washington”: Notebook No. 28A, MTP.

  334. “Sham and shoddy”: SLC’s comments on FBH are quoted in C. O. Parsons, “Mark Twain in Australia,” Antioch Review, XXI, winter 1961-62, 458.

  334. Jameson Raid prisoners: L, 632-33; MTN, 293-94; John Hays Hammond, Autobiography (New York, 1935), II, 398-400.

  335. “Steady, unceasing feeling”: OLC to Susan Crane, Sept. 5, 1895, at sea (MTP).

  335. “I don’t think”: SLC to HHR, June 6, 1896, Queenstown, Cape Colony (MTP).

  335. Riley: Notebooks Nos. 28A, 29, and 30, MTP.

  335. “One of the mysteries”: AU-1924, II, 34.

  Chapter Sixteen (pages 336–357)

  336. “She seems quite happy”: NF, 219.

  336. “I wonder”: LL, 326.

  336. “Mr. Clemens”: Susy’s deathbed writings are in MTP.

  337. “When out of her head”: Notebook No. 31, MTP.

  337. “I have hated”: LL, 324.

  337. “All dog”: SLC to Pamela Moffett. Jan. 7, 1897, London (MTP).

  337. “An odious world”: LL, 328.

  337. ‘I have many”: L, 641.

  337. “It puzzles me”: MTH, 664.

  337. “Whose outside aspect”: SLC to Laurence Hutton, Feb. 20, 1898, Vienna (MTP).

  338. “Subscription book”: SLC to HHR, November 1896, London (MTP).

  338. “Don’t mind anything”: Quoted in MF, 180.

  339. “The cloud”: MTN, 354.

  339. Forest fire: L, 56; SLC describes the fire in Chapter 23 of Roughing It (W, III, 164-67)

  339. “Close of a Great Career”: MTN, 327.

  339. “Since bad luck”: Notebook No. 32A, MTP.

  340. Writing in 1897: Sir John Adams, Everyman’s Psychology (New York, 1929), 202-3.

  340. Bernard DeVoto: Mark Twain at Work (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), 116.

  341. “In my age”: AU-1959, 43.

  341. Was it dream: Paine, 964.

  341. Speculative notion: L. L. White, The Unconscious Before Freud (New York, 1960), 169-70.

  341. “Nearer, yes”: MTN, 348.

  341. “I was suddenly”: MTN, 351-52.

  342. Wales McCormick: AU-1959, 88.

  343. “A psychosis”: Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis (New York, 1940), 61.

  343n. Higginson: Anna Mary Wells, Dear Preceptor (Boston, 1963), 272-73, 307. Garland: Hamlin Garland, Roadside Meetings (New York, 1930), 37, 60-61; Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland (Austin, Tex., 1960), 15, 21. SLC to R. W. Gilder: Nov. 6 and Nov. 13, 1898, Vienna (Yale).

  345. “Which Was the Dream?”: Manuscript in MTP.

  345n. Hurlbert: Frank Maloy Anderson, The Mystery of a Public Man (Minneapolis, 1948), 133.

  345. “My double”: MTN, 349.

  346. The Great Dark: Published in Letters from the Earth (New York, 1962), 233-86.

  347. “When I returned”: W, IV, 303.

  347. “Nothing exists”: W, XXVII, 140.

  347. “I disseminate”: N.Y. Herald, Oct. 16, 1900.

  347. “Silent colossal National Lie: “My First Lie and How I Got Out of It” (W, XXIII, 169).

  348. Gala benefit lecture: SLC to Frank Fuller, May 27, June 3, and July 2, 1897, London (3 letters—MTP).

  349. “All friends think”: The cables from HHR and Frank Bliss are in MTP.

  349. “Grown so tired”: SLC to J. G. Bennett, June 19, 1897, London (MTP).

  349. “My wife won’t allow me”: SLC to Andrew Carnegie, July 7, 1897, London (Carnegie Papers—Library of Congress).

  349. “Put the damage”: SLC to Frank Bliss, Nov. 4, 1897, Vienna (MTP). The N.Y. Herald review appeared Sunday, Oct. 10.

  350. “I imagine those Essenes”: Orion to SLC, Nov. 30, 1897, Keokuk (MTP). On the envelope SLC wrote: “… his last letter. Preserve it. SLC.”

  350. “He was good”: Published in Palimpsest, publication of the State Historical Soc. of Iowa, X, No. 10 (October 1929), 396.

  350. “Your latest work”: MTH, 668.

  350. “The debts”: L, 653.

  350. “A quite unexpected $10,000”: MTH, 685.

  351. “I have been out”: MTH, 684.

  351. “The black days”: L, 734-36.

  351. “Sz is not a Paige”: Paine, 1057.

  352. “Not on your life”: SLC to J. Y. MacAlister, Jan. 16, 1906, New York (Barrett Coll.—photostat in MTP).

  353. “The first flag”: “Jean’s Illness” (MTP). SLC also kept a “Diary of the Kellgren Cure” (MTP), in which he catalogued his own ailments.

  353. “Damn all the other cures”: SLC to R. W. Gilder, July 23, 1899, Sanna, Sweden (photostat at Yale).

  353. “The objection is”: Newspaper clipping in MTP.

  353. “A marvelous race”: L, 647.

  353. “Such cowards, hypocrites”: Nicholas Halasz, Captain Dreyfus (New York, 1955), 135.

  353. “Get Madame Dreyfus to consider”: SLC to Andrew Chatto, Sept. 24, 1899, Sanna, Sweden (Berg—NYPL).

  354. “Damned good”: MF, 202.

  354. “Self-appointed Ambassador”: Notebook No. 32, MTP.

  354. “Your 84 votes”: MTH, 696. See Allen W. Read, “The Membership in Proposed American Academies,” AL, VII, No. 2 (May 1935), 155-60.

  354. “I wish you could understand”: MTH, 668.

  354. “The greatest man”: MTH, 679.

  354. Hamlin Garland: Garland’s account of his meeting with SLC and FBH is in his Roadside Meetings (New York, 1930), 447-53.

  355. “President McKinley”: SLC to Chatto & Windus, Apr. 25, 1899, Vienna (Berg—NYPL).

  355. Autobiographical sketch: A 14-page manuscript, with OLC’s penciled corrections, is in Berg—NYPL.

  356. “Gush and vulgarity”: SLC to S. E. Moffett, Apr. 25, 1899, Vienna (MTP). In this letter SLC told Moffett to write the biographical sketch for Bliss. On March 31, 1899, SLC sent his own draft of the sketch to Bliss with instructions for Moffett to put it in his own language. The sketch, signed by Moffett, was published in McClure’s Magazine, October 1899.

  356. Tall story: See DeLancey Ferguson, “Mark Twain’s Comstock Duel: The Birth of a Legend.” AL, XIV, No. I (March 1942), 66-70.

  357. “The 20th Century is a stranger”: MTN, 372.

  Chapter Seventeen (pages 358–388)

  358. “Younger and jollier”: LinL, II, 138.

  359. “It always puzzled me”: MF, 217.

  359. “I hate to have him”: MTH, 735n.

  360. Cash income: MTN, 380.

  360n. Final accounting: N.Y. Times, Feb. 22, 1964.

  361. “Be very guarded”: OLC to S. E. Moffett, Jan. 23, 1902, Riverdale, N.Y. (MTP).

  361. Celebrity: Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image (New York, 1962), 57.

  361. “Mark’s spectacular personality”: Ferris Greenslet, The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston, 1908), 220.

  361. “But they would not let it go”: MTH, 735n.

  362. “I must really complain”: MTH, 763-64.

  302. “Corn-Pone Opinions”: W, XXIX, 399-406.

  362. “I think
that England sinned”: Boston Transcript, Dec. 14, 1900.

  362. “I bring you”: N.Y. Herald, Dec. 30, 1900.

  363. “I am not expecting anything”: L, 704-5.

  363. “Oldest and best models”: L, 763.

  363. “The Tom Sawyer of the political world”: Eruption, 49-51.

  363. “It is simple, direct”: MTN, 394.

  364. “In ten years”: L, 715.

  364. “O compassionate missionary”: W, XXIX, 249.

  364. “Nothing but such a book”: SLC to Frank Bliss, Aug. 21, 1901, Saranac, N. Y. (MTP).

  365. “Even half a friend”: SLC to Frank Bliss, Aug. 29, 1901, Saranac (MTP).

  365. Tom and Huck stories: Notebook No. 34, MTP.

  365. “It all seems so small”: Paine, 1168.

  366. “Standard Oil”: Paine, 1076.

  366. “When we contemplate”: SLC to “Mr. Day,” Mar. 21, 1901 (?), New York (MTP).

  366. “My instincts”: SLC to Dr. Barbour, Jan. 8, 1906, New York (Berg—NYPL).

  367. “The whole truth”: Paine, 1234.

  367. “If we can build”: M. R. Werner, It Happened in New York (New York, 1957), 242. In addition to Werner’s account and Paine’s (1279-1286), I have drawn on the following sources for the Gorky affair: Louis J. Budd, “Twain, Howells, and the Boston Nihilists,” New England Quarterly, XXXII (September 1959), 351-71; Alexander Kaun, Maxim Gorky and His Russia (New York, 1931; Kaun quotes Franklin Giddings’ “social lynching” article); Ernest Poole, “Maxim Gorki in New York,” Slavonic and East European Review, XXII, No. 58 (May 1944), 77-83.

  368. “Custom is custom”: SLC, “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (New York, 1962), 156.

  369. “I more believe”: LL, 344.

  369. “Almost the only crime”: SLC to Clara, May 20, 1905, Dublin, N. H. (MTP).

  369. “Sozodont”: Undated note (Berg—NYPL).

  370. “Poor Livy”: L, 728.

  370. “The last name”: LL, 339-40.

  371. Breach of contract: SLC’s deposition is in MTP.

  371. “Passing off the stage”: William Lyon Phelps, Autobiography (New York, 1939), 456-57.

  371. “Pathetic something”: L, 756.

  371. “Full of remorse”: MTN, 387.

  371. “A calamity”: MTN, 388.

  371. “Bereaved circumstances”: MTN, 387.

  373. Later he claimed: SLC to Elizabeth Wallace, Aug. 27, 1909, Redding, Conn. (MTP).

  373. “The dinner scheme”: SLC to George Harvey, Sept. 21, 1905, Dublin, N. H. (MTP).

  373. “Harvey the Magnificent”: W. F. Johnson, George Harvey (Boston, 1929), 85.

  374. Publicity stunt: Isabel Lyon’s notes (Berg’NYPL).

  374. “Hated Persons”: List in MTP. In Notebook No. 36, MTP, SLC said, “I wish all publishers were in hell.”

  374. “Sit by the fire”: L, 774.

  376. “My biographer”: SLC to “Any friend or acquaintance of mine,” Mar. 1, 1906, New York (MTP).

  376. “I don’t want it done”: SLC to Clara, June 19 or 20, 1905, Dublin, N. H. (MTP).

  376. “Damned fool”: SLC to S. E. Moffett, Feb. 7 or 8, 1907 (MTP).

  376. “All private letters”: SLC to S. E. Moffett, July 28, 1900, London (MTP).

  377. “Lost confidence in Paine”: Isabel Lyon’s notes (Berg—NYPL).

  377. “Those privacies exposed”: MTH, 828.

  378. “Dramatic and unconscious”: MTH, 780.

  378. “Remorseless truth”: MTH, 782.

  378. “When I was younger”: Paine, 1269.

  379. “Dewy and breezy”: MTH, 778.

  379. “Poor man”: Selected Letters of William James, ed. Elizabeth Hardwick (New York, 1961), 228-29.

  379. “When I think”: Paine, 1323.

  380. “Magnificent coup”: MMT, 96.

  380. “Microscopic dust”:AU-1959, 368-70.

  381. “As widely celebrated”:AU-1959, 349.

  381. “Butter wanted”: Mark Twain’s Letters to Mary, ed. Lewis Leary (New York, 1961), opp. 67.

  381. Carlotta Welles: Carlotta Welles Briggs to Dixon Wecter, Nov. 4, 1947 (MTP).

  382. “Greatest American writer”: The interview with Shaw was published in Harper’s Weekly, July 20, 1007.

  382. “My dear Mark Twain”: G. B. Shaw to SLC, July 3, 1907, London (MTP); except for the salutation, the letter is in Paine, 1398. Writing Saint Joan, Shaw told Lady Gregory in 1923 that he had not read SLC’s Joan of Arc for fear “of being influenced by him”; in his preface to the play (1924) Shaw said SLC’s Joan was “an unimpeachable American school teacher in armor.”

  384. “Principal intimate”: AU-1924, I, 251.

  384. Thank-you notes: Carnegie papers-Library of Congress.

  384. “Money-lust”: L, 770.

  384. “Cannot be altogether bad”: SLC’s account of the Aldine Club lunch is in Eruption, 06-105.

  385. “Mr. Rogers”: MF, 278-79.

  385. “Poor fellow”: MTH, 838.

  386. “My father died”: SLC to Clara, Hamilton, Bermuda, Mar. 24, 1910 (MTP).

  386. “Unaccountable freaks”: MF, 279.

  386. “The irony of it”: SLC to Clara, Redding, Conn., July 18, 1909 (MTP).

  386. “Caught Miss Lyon”: SLC to Melville Stone, Sept. 14, 1909 (MTP).

  386. “A liar”: SLC to Clara, Mar. 6, 1910, Hamilton, Bermuda (MTP).

  387. “For the fun of it”: MMT, 99.

  387. “I hear the newspapers”: Paine, 1549.

  388. “You never wrote anything greater”: MTH, 851.

  INDEX

  Abbey, Edwin, 221

  “Adam’s Diary,” 373

  Adams, John, 340

  Adams, Prophet, 54

  Addams, Jane, 367

  Ade, George, 375

  Ah Sin, 202, 205, 206, 213, 217, 256

  Alcott, Bronson, 84

  Alcott, Louisa May, 268

  Aldine Club, 384

  Aldrich, Lilian Woodman, 145-146

  Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 20, 131, 132, 144, 173-174, 358, 359, 361

  Alexander II, Czar, 51, 363

  Alexandroffsky, 177

  Alta California, 58, 120

  Clemens’ commissions from, 16, 23, 27, 32, 30, 125

  Clemens’ letters to, 35, 43, 48, 51, 52, 56, 71, 82, 114

  success of, 57

  and book, 61, 68, 69. See also Innocents Abroad, writing of

  Ament, Joseph, 284

  American Claimant, An, 195, 306-307

  American Conflict, 63

  “American Humorists, The,” III

  American Publisher, The, 134, 136

  American Publishing Co., 60-62, 217, 237, 244, 333, 338, 360

  “American Vandal Abroad, The,” 83

  Ames, Representative Oakes, 163

  Andrews, Dr., 40

  Andreyeva, Maria, 367-368

  “Angel Fish,” 381-382, 385

  Angert, Eugene, 383

  Another Innocent Abroad, 337

  “Appeal from One That Is Persecuted, An,” 147-148

  Arabian Nights, 251

  Archbold, John D., 321, 326

  Argonauten-Geschichten, Die, 215

  Arnold, Matthew, 274, 299

  Ashcroft, Ralph, 381, 386

  Associated Press, 185, 386, 387

  Atlantic Monthly, 20, 73, 120, 129, 144, 185, 210

  Clemens and, 91 146, 168, 175, 181, 184, 186-187, 235, 243

  Clemens’ works reviewed in, III, 128, 148-149, 180, 199, 229, 240

  Clemens, Orion, and, 234

  Harte and, 130, 132, 144

  Autobiography, 59, 82, 104, 111, 179, 275-276, 280, 377-379

  Autobiography of a Coward, The, 234

  Autobiography of a Damned Fool, 233

  Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 93, 325

  “Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance,” 124

  Back Number, The, 314

  Barnum, P. T., 160, 171, 185

  Barrie, Sir James, 382


  “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,” 261

  Beach, Emma, 44, 45, 68

  Beach, Moses S., 41, 43

  Beadle*s Dime Book of Fun, 26

  Beard, Dan, 286, 367

  Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 14, 19, 76, 85, 160, 256, 354

  on Clemens, 63

  Plymouth Pulpit, 91

  style of, 23-25

  and Quaker City voyage, 24-25, 27-28, 41

  and marriage of Clemens, 100

  scandal concerning, 157-158, 162, 186

  trial of, 13, 188

  death of, 290

  Beecher, Thomas, 24, 76, 92, 113, 192

  Beerbohm, Max, 382

  Belmont, Perry, 375

  Ben Hur, 262

  Bennett, James Gordon, 55, 59, 64, 92, 349

  Bessemer, Henry, 282

  Beyond the Mississippi, 61

  Bierce, Ambrose, 119

  Big Bonanza, The, 191-192

  Billings, Josh, 32, 86, 87, 111

  Black Crook, The, 22

  Bliss, Elisha, 102, 120, 135, 162f., 237, 244

  and Alta California letters—Innocents Abroad, 60-61, 62ff., 69f., 79, 82, 103-105

  and Clemens, Orion, 134, 175, 232-233

  and The Gilded Age, 166-167

  and Tom Sawyer, 199, 200, 213-214

  and A Tramp Abroad, 228

  Bliss, Frank, 213-214, 237, 333, 338, 349, 355, 364

  Booklovers’ Library, 360

  Boorstin, Daniel, 361

  Boston (literary), 143-146, 185-187

  Boston Advertiser, 268, 270

  Boston Congo Reform Association, 366

  Boston Daily News, 189

  Boston Evening Transcript, 208, 240

  Boston Lyceum Bureau, 85-86

  Boston Weekly Transcript, 358

  Bostonians, The, 139

  Bowen, Will, 38, 53, 64, 114-115, 119, 179

  Bowles, Sam, 99

  Bowser, David Watt (Wattie), 230-231, 248

  Boyesen, Hjalmar, 239

  Brady, Mathew, 121

  Bread-Winners, The, 166

  Brick Presbyterian Church, 388

  Brown, John, 85

  Browne, Charles Farrar, See Ward, Artemus

  Browning, Robert, 171, 296

  Bryn Mawr, 306, 309

  Buell, Dwight, 282

  Buffalo Express, 97, 99, 105, 108ff., 115-116, 117, 119, 125, 132ff., 142

  Bullard, Rev., 43, 46, 54

  “(Burlesque) Autobiography,” 124, 196

  Burlingame, Anson, 81

  Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 239, 256

  Burton, Rev. N. J., 289

  Butler, Benjamin, 158

  “By Rail Through France,” 74

  Cable, George Washington, 146, 163, 244-245, 247-248, 254, 266-267, 374