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  lecturer, 87, 88

  on Innocents Abroad, 107-108

  and Clemens, 209-211, 325, 354

  Holy Land, 53-54

  Hooker, Alice, 65-66, 332

  Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 24, 63, 92, 99f., 109, 157-158, 201-202

  Hooker, John, 140, 203

  Hornet, 20, 344, 347

  “Horse’s Tale, A,” 373

  Hotten, John Camden, 152

  House, Edward H., 25f., 28, 34, 254

  Howe, Julia Ward, 86

  Howells, Elinor, 190

  Howells, John, 377

  Howells, William Dean, 25, 49, 139, 144, 189-190, 324, 352, 354, 364, 369, 385

  on Beecher’s trial, 188

  on Carnegie, 287

  on Clemens’ works, 148-149, 164, 181, 192-193, 199, 200, 268, 295, 301

  and Clemens, 18, 58, 62, 73, 111-112, 141f., 146, 165, 169, 173ff., 185-186, 190-191, 196, 214, 216, 219, 224ff., 233, 235, 239, 241, 250ff., 256, 260, 269-270, 278, 298, 307, 309, 311, 318, 350, 370

  and Gorky, 367-368

  and Paige machine, 285

  and Orion Clemens’ autobiography, 234

  How to Tell a Story, 309

  Hubbard, Elbert, 383

  huckleberries, 64

  Huckleberry Finn, 146, 170, 179, 180, 202, 217ff., 243, 260, 298, 308, 364

  writing of 175, 197-199, 248-249, 251, 253

  publication of, 256, 262-264

  reaction to, 267-269, 325

  Hugo, Victor, 26

  Idylls of the King, 295

  “Immigration and Wages,” 235

  Independent, 167

  Ingersoll, Col. Robert, 226, 344

  “In Memoriam,” 356

  Innocents Abroad, The, 57, 93f., 98,

  Clemens on, 62

  Quaker City voyage and, 40f., 43, 46f., 49, 53

  writing of, 67, 70-72

  childhood associations in, 72-73

  delivery to Bliss, 79

  Harte on, 63, 71-72, 74

  publicity for, 83, 102-103, 131

  reaction to, 104-106, 107ff., 144, 388

  sales of, 117, 123, 142, 148, 174

  Innocents Adrift, The, 313

  Internal Revenue Department, 115-116

  Irving, Sir Henry, 305, 325

  Irving, Washington, 20

  Is Shakespeare Dead?, 383

  J’accuse, 353

  Jackson, Dr. A. Reeves, 43

  James, Henry, 46-47, 139, 160, 186, 223, 248, 379

  James, Henry, Sr., 86

  James, William, 157, 256, 316, 327, 353, 379

  Janesville Gazette, 43

  Jewett, Sarah Orne, 325

  “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” see Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

  Joan of Arc, 308, 315, 328f., 331f., 334, 357, 375

  Johnson, Pres. Andrew, 68-69

  Johnson, Robert Underwood, 274

  Jones, Sen. John Percival, 303-306

  “Jumping Frog,” see Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

  Kahn, Otto, 322

  Keeler, Ralph, 144

  Keller, Helen, 322, 385

  Kellgren, Heinrick, 352-353

  Kemble, E. W., 263-264

  Kemble, Fanny, 84

  Kennan, George, 299, 364-365

  Keokuk Gate City, 319

  King, Grace, 308, 317

  “King Leopold’s Soliloquy,” 94, 366

  Kingsley, Canon Charles, 153

  Kipling, Rudyard, 190-191, 252, 318, 334, 383

  Laffan, William, 313, 325

  Lampton, James, 160, 163, 165, 265

  Landis, Judge Kenesaw Mountain, 323

  Lang, Andrew, 43, 169

  Langdon (family), 320

  Langdon, Charles, 40, 55, 65, 88, 100, 110, 302

  Langdon, Jervis, 77f., 94, 106, 109, 112f., 121, 133

  consent to engagement, 91-92

  illness, 120-121

  Langdon, Mrs. Jervis, 88-90, 305, 338

  Langdon, Olivia, see Clemens, Olivia Langdon

  Leathers, Jesse Madison, 195, 236

  Leaves of Grass, 158

  Leopold II, 348

  Lester, G. B., 303

  Letters from the Earth, 385

  Lever, Charles, 42

  Library of American Literature, 291, 317, 321

  Library of Humor, 236, 242-243, 258

  Life, 268

  Life of Pope Leo XIII, 289-290

  Life on the Mississippi, 40, 49, 113, 170, 175, 312

  writing of, 242, 246, 248-250

  Linotype, see Mergenthaler’s Linotype

  Literature, 354

  Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 321n., 323, 324n.

  London Saturday Review, 131, 133

  London Times, 282-283

  Long, Earl K., 162-163

  Long, Huey, 162-163

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 61, 144, 186, 209-211

  Lotos Club, 325, 359

  Louisville Courier-Journal, 266

  Lowell, James Russell, 20, 32, 81, 130, 144, 152, 158, 186, 189, 354

  “Luck of Roaring Camp, The,” 74, 107, 129, 130

  Lyon, Isabel V., 370, 374, 375-376, 386

  McClure, S. S., Syndicate, 311, 315, 360, 384

  McClure’s magazine, 355

  McCormick, Wales, 284, 342

  McKinley, Pres. William, 355, 363, 364

  MacCrellish, Frederick, 69, 70

  Macdonald, George, 81

  Mackay, John, 286, 304, 325, 327, 329-330

  Malory, Thomas, 293, 295-296

  Mansfield, Josie, 163

  “Man, the Architect of Our Religion,” 235

  Marcosson, Isaac, 384

  “Mark Twain, a Biographical Sketch by Samuel E. Moffett,” 356

  “Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography,” 124, 196

  Massiglia, Countess, 370-371

  “Master Pilot of the Mississippi,” 232, 238

  Melville, Herman, 50, 343-344

  Mergenthaler’s Linotype, 283, 286-287, 305-306, 331

  Message to Garcia, A, 383

  Metropolitan Club, 370

  Military Services Institution, 295

  Miller, Joaquin, 139, 192

  Mills, Darius Ogden, 241

  Missouri Democrat, 29

  Missouri Republican, 31

  Mitchell, Maggie, 28

  Moby Dick, 25

  Moffett, Annie, 113, 148

  Moffett, Pamela Clemens, 15, 59, 79, 81, 89, 113, 291, 309, 337

  character, 29

  and Tennessee land, 18, 97, 159

  and expenses, 100, 117

  death of, 374

  Moffett, Samuel, 330, 334, 356, 360-361, 387

  Monday Evening Club, 146, 193, 287, 341

  Morse, Samuel F. B., 221-222

  Morte d’ Arthur, 265, 293, 295-296

  Mutsuhito, Emperor, 25

  “My Debut as a Literary Person,” 344

  “My Late Senatorial Secretaryship,” 58

  My Mark Twain, 191

  Mysterious Stranger, The 49, 96, 116 147, 170, 347-348, 373, 382

  My Summer in a Garden, 160

  Napoleon III, 47

  Nasby, Petroleum V., 32, 86, 98-99, 11of., 266

  Nash, Tom, 294, 324

  Nast, Thomas, 59, 166-167, 206, 375

  Nation, 20, 24, 106, 162

  New England Society, 359

  New Mercantile Library, 75

  “New Pilgrim’s Progress, The,” 67

  New York, 19-21

  New York Athletic Club, 326

  New York Evangelist, 359

  New York Herald, 55ff., 59, 64, 240, 304, 349, 362

  New York Journal, 348

  New York Post, 175, 235

  New York Sun, 43, 124, 201, 223, 273-274, 313

  New York Times, 25, 34, 251, 287

  New York Tribune, 25, 59, 131, 175, 264, 287

  reviews of Clemens’ work, 34, 165, 167, 240-242

  Clemens’ letters to, 43, 57, 69, 95-96, 146, 156

  New Y
ork Weekly, 23

  New York World, 34, 204, 269, 305

  Newell, Julia, 41, 43

  Nineteenth Century Club, 359

  North American Review, 265, 324, 361, 363f., 367, 372, 377, 383

  Nye, Emma, 122-123

  Nye, Senator James W., 33, 34

  “Old Times on the Mississippi,” 170, 184, 186

  “Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt,” 95

  Orton, Arthur, 189, 383

  Oscanyan, Hon. C, 86

  Osgood, James R., 173, 237-238, 243, 249-250, 257

  “Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands,” 110-111

  “Outcasts of Poker Flat, The,” 74

  Overland Monthly, 73f., 90, 129

  Packard’s Monthly, 94-95

  Paige, James W., 281-286, 292, 301-306, 314, 317-319, 328, 344, 351, 355

  typesetter, 281-288, 290-293, 297-298, 300-306, 317-320, 325, 325, 327-329, 331-332, 340, 351

  Paine, Albert Bigelow, 128, 288, 313 367f., 372, 375-378, 385, 387f.

  Panic of 1873, 168

  Panic of 1893, 318-324

  Paradise Lost, 235

  Paris, 46-48

  Parker, Rev. Edwin Pond, 146, 238

  Parsloe, Charles T. 202-203, 204-205

  Parton, James, 63, 181

  Paul, John, 26. See also Webb, Charles Henry

  Peirce, C. S., 157

  People’s Book of Biography, 63

  Perkins, Mary Beecher, 158

  Perry, Thomas Sergeant, 268

  “Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins,” 101-102

  Phelps, Roswell, 244

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 284

  Philadelphia Press, 227

  Phillips, Wendell, 85

  “Pied Piper, The,” 259

  Pike County Ballads, 131-132

  “Plain Language from Truthful James,” 129

  Players Club, 22, 324

  Plymouth Pulpit, 91

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 343-344, 345

  Pomeroy, Sen. Samuel C., 121, 162

  Pond, Maj. James B., 259-260, 333, 336, 360

  Pond, Ozias, 267

  Post, Emily, 375

  Potter, Edward Tuckerman, 181

  Pratt and Whitney, 288, 292-293, 304-305, 351

  Prime, William, 53

  Prince and the Pauper, The, 169, 215, 235, 238, 250, 270, 308, 315, 341

  writing of, 175, 206, 234

  success of, 239-241, 248

  dramatization of, 25, 257

  “Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The,” 209-211, 274-275 296-297

  Puck, 360

  Pudd’nhead Wilson, 101, 170, 314, 319, 319, 320, 326, 329, 342

  Punch, Brothers, Punch!, 213

  Quaker City, voyage of, 39-46, 48-55

  Quarles, John, 47

  Racquet Club, 325

  Raymond, John T., 168, 180, 257

  Reade, Charles, 153

  Redpath, James, 84-86, 87, 98, 118, 151, 185

  Reid, Whitelaw, 97, 158, 287, 381 and Clemens, 106, 167, 240-242, 253, 268

  Return of the Native, The, 248

  “Revised Catechism, The,” 95-96

  Rhoads, James E., 309

  Rice, Allen Thorndike, 265

  Rice, Clarence, 320

  Richardson, Albert Deane, 61

  Richardson, H. H., 157

  Riley, James Henry, 58, 87, 96, 98, 124-129, 142, 335

  Ring and the Book, The, 256

  Ristori, Adelaide, 33

  RoBards, John, 196

  Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 384-385

  Rockefeller, John D., 321, 323, 384-385

  Rockefeller, William, 321

  Rodin, Auguste, 383

  Rogers, Harry, 384

  Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 77, 159, 321-322, 333, 348-349, 350, 360, 374, 383ff.

  Rogers, John, 45

  Roosevelt, Pres. Theodore, 363, 364, 372

  Rossetti, William Michael, 139

  Roughing It, 70, 96, 110, 125, 142, 163, 175, 202, 208, 325, 338

  writing of 118-120, 122f., 127, 135-138

  reviews of, 148-149, 167

  sales, 150, 215

  dramatization of, 250

  quoted, 347

  Royce, Josiah, 157, 316

  Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 157

  Sacramento Union, 344

  Sage, Russell, 258

  St. Louis Republican, 319

  St. Nicholas Magazine, 314

  Saint-Saëns, Camille, 383

  San Francisco Examiner, 330, 334

  Saturday Morning Club, 248

  Saturday Press, 15, 20, 26

  Saunterings, 160

  Savage Club, 22

  Scott, F. M., 290

  Scott, Sir Walter, 330, 358, 375

  Scribner’s Monthly, 146-147

  Secret Service, The, 61

  “Sellers, Colonel,” 160f., 163, 165-166, 168, 180. See also Gilded Age, The

  Sellers, George Escol, 163

  Severance, Emily, 44, 45

  Severance, Solon, 56

  Shaw, George Bernard, 382-383

  Sherman, General William T., 28, 41, 295

  Sherman, John, 295

  Sickles, General Daniel, 83

  1601; or Conversation as It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors, 196-197

  Sketches, New and Old, 181

  success of, 200

  “S.L.C. Interviews M.T.,” 340

  Slee, J. D. F., 94

  Slote, Daniel, 39f., 43, 52f., 150, 236

  Slovenly Peter, 315

  Society of American Authors, 359

  “Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism,” 221

  Southgate, Bishop, 19

  Spaulding, Clara, 212

  Spectator, 152

  Spencer, Herbert, 171

  Spofford, Ainsworth, 348

  Springfield Republican, 99, 268, 270

  Standard Oil Trust, 321-322, 324, 327

  Stanford, Leland, 278

  Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, 31, 141, 151-152, 154-155, 353, 374

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 86

  Stein, Gertrude, 274

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 341

  Stewart, A. T., 19

  Stewart, Sen. William M., 50, 56, 57-58, 121

  Stoddard, Charles Warren, 91, 139, 172, 181, 188-189, 318

  Stoker, Bram, 305

  Stomach Club, 221

  Stone, Melville, 386

  Story of a Bad Boy, 132

  Stowe, Calvin, 146

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 24, 105, 141, 158, 182, 203-204, 240, 311, 336

  Struwwelpeter, 315

  subscription system, 61-63

  Sumner, Charles, 77, 85, 158

  Sut Lovingood’s Yarns, 23

  Sutro, Adolph, 348

  Swain, Robert B., 90

  Szczepanik, Jan, 351-352

  Taft, Pres. William Howard, 372

  Talmage, Rev. T. De Witt, 133

  “Tar Baby, The,” 245

  Tarbell, Ida, 384

  Tauchnitz, Baron von, 215

  Taylor, Bayard, 216, 220

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 171, 295

  Tent Life in the Holyland, 53

  Territorial Enterprise, 46, 90, 119, 121, 191

  “Thankful Blossom,” 201

  Thomson, Mortimer Neal, 36-37

  Thoreau, Henry David, 84

  3,000 Years Among the Microbes, 373

  Tichborne Claimant trial, 172

  Tilton, Mrs. Theodore, 157-158

  Titcomb, Timothy, 146-147

  Toledo Blade, 98

  Tom Sawyer, 31, 49, 170, 213, 238, 325, 356

  writing of, 175, 178-180, 192-193, 197, 199

  mishandling of, 191, 200, 213

  English publication of, 220

  dramatization of, 256-257

  Tom Sawyer Abroad, 314, 329

  Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, unfinished stories, 303, 307, 311, 365

  Tom Sawyer, Detective, 332

  “To My Missionary Critics,�
�� 364

  “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” 363-364

  Tramp Abroad, A, 217-218, 220, 224, 229, 236, 238

  Trollope, Anthony, 171

  “True Story, A,” 180-181

  Trumbull, J. Hammond, 160

  Turgenev, Ivan, 171, 221

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 339, 356

  “Turning Point of My Life, The,” 385, 387, 388

  Twain, Mark, see Clemens, Samuel Langhorne

  Tweed, William M., “Boss,” 156, 158, 163, 189

  Twichell, Rev. Joseph, 41, 92, 118, 141, 182, 184, 289, 292, 313, 337, 353, 370, 384

  meets Clemens, 82-83

  and Clemens’ wedding, 113

  and Boston walk, 185-186

  with Clemens in Europe, 212, 217-218

  and Clemens’ history game, 252-253

  and Clemens’ politics, 363-364

  and Clemens’ letter, 376

  and Clara’s wedding, 387

  Typesetter, see Paige, James W., typesetter

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 105

  Ungern-Sternberg, Baron, 51

  Union League Club, 286

  “United States of Lyncherdom, The,” 364

  Universal, The, 360

  Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 95, 157

  “Venice, Past and Present,” 75

  Wakeman, Ned, 16-17, 40, 56, 176, 232, 344

  Wallace, Lew, 262

  Ward, Artemus, 15, 26, 36, 111, 147, 152

  advice to Clemens, 13

  Clemens compared to, 14, 29, 32, 86

  subject of Clemens’ lecture, 142

  death of, 36

  Warner, Charles Dudley, 14of., 173, 199, 323, 354

  and Hartford Courant, 99, 109

  collaboration with Clemens, 159-167

  death of, 359

  Warner, George, 227, 323-324, 326

  Warner, Lilly, 149-150

  Warner, Susie, 161

  “War Prayer, The,” 366

  Watterson, Henry, 266

  Wealth Against Commonwealth, 323, 324n.

  Webb, Charles Henry, 25-26, 55

  and publication of “Jumping Frog,” 27, 29, 32-33

  suit against, 112, 122

  Webster, Charles L., 251, 281, 285, 290

  Clemens’ business manager, 236-237

  Clemens’ publisher, 256, 257, 298

  Clemens’ hatred for, 271, 291-292, 337, 344, 355

  Webster, Daniel, 76

  Welles, Carlotta, 381-382

  What Is Man?, 340, 347

  “Which Was the Dream,” 345

  Whitman, Walt, 20, 49, 58, 81, 152, 158, 281, 284, 300

  Whitmore, Franklin G., 286, 288

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 296, 348 354

  Wilhelm, Kaiser, 312, 363

  Williams, True, 199

  Wilson, Pres. Woodrow, 373

  Wilson, Theodore, 326

  Winans, Thomas De Kay, 177-178

  Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, 157

  Woodhull, Victoria, 157

  World, The, 367

  World’s Work, 384

  Writings of Mark Twain, The, 355

  “Yankee in Czar Nicholas’ Court,” 367

  Young, John Russell, 242, 304

 

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