by Mark Twain
H. E. S.
1. 10 Oct 1898 to Bok, ViU. See “Revisions for magazine publication,” below.
2. Only nontextual changes, such as the typographic style of titles, are omitted from this record. But all such “silent” changes are still listed by category at MTPO.
3. “A Day with Mark Twain,” Chicago Tribune, 29 Sept 1907, F6. It is not clear whether the reporter observed Clemens at work or was repeating remarks by Isabel Lyon.
4. See AD, 30 Mar 1906, p.462.
5. Notes made by Doris Webster for Dixon Wecter about an interview with Isabel Lyon, ca. March 1948, CUMARK; Howden 1925. Typescripts prepared by Howden show that she typed some punctuation, presumably because Clemens spoke it aloud, but that he supplied the vast bulk of it by hand—as in the AD of 6 Oct 1908, for example. Clemens’s practice with Hobby does not show this same kind of after-the-fact punctuation of the typescript, suggesting that she, more than Howden, had learned what was expected.
6. Each of these errors is identified by Clemens’s correction of them on the ADs of 9 Jan, 13 Jan, and 14 Feb 1906.
7. This essay was written in 1898 and published as a magazine article in 1899, but without any indication that it came from the autobiography
8. Clemens referred to “Mark Twain’s 70th Birthday: Souvenir of Its Celebration” (SLC 1905g). In the dictation of 16 December 1908 he again said, “I think I will insert here (if I have not inserted it in some earlier chapter of this autobiography) the grand account of the banquet which ... appeared in Harper’s Weekly a week later.”
9. AD, 13 Jan 1906, p. 274.
10. See the Textual Commentaries at MTPO for “Travel-Scraps I,” “Ralph Keeler,” the ADs of 17 Jan 1906 and 15 Mar 1906, and “Horace Greeley.”
11. 16 Jan 1904 to Howells, MH-H, in MTHL, 2:778. This letter is quoted more fully in the Introduction, pp. 20–21.
12. In the ADs of l6 Feb and 23 Feb l906.
13. 21 Aug 1889 to Howells, MH-H, in MTHL, 2:610.
14. CY, 292.
15. 16–22 Aug 1881 to Ticknor, Ticknor 1922, 140.
16. 25 July 1897 to Chatto and Windus, ViU. The proofreader had made half a dozen changes in the punctuation (which Clemens corrected) and he had struck a line under the word “drouths” (which was exactly as Clemens had spelled it in the manuscript). Clemens made the correction himself to “droughts” on the proof of chapter 25, page 147, of More Tramps Abroad (SLC 1897b). The proof with these changes is bound with the manuscript for the book at NN-BGC, part 2, following MS page 473.
17. In the first example the typesetter had set “FROM DIARY” instead of “From Diary” (as in the manuscript) on the proof of page 147 of More Tramps Abroad (NN-BGC). There Clemens explained: “Lower-case, as always before,” referring to his consistent practice with “From Diary” earlier in the text. In the example from “A Horse’s Tale” (SLC 1906c, MS at NN-BGC), he simply realized he was incapable of capitalizing the military titles consistently (and correctly). The typesetters did as he asked.
18. See, for example, the Textual Commentary for AD, 11 Jan 1906 (MTPO), in which Clemens inserted a text of his Whittier dinner speech (1877).
WORD DIVISION IN THIS VOLUME
The following compound words that could be rendered either solid or with a hyphen are hyphenated at the end of a line in this volume. For purposes of quotation each is listed here with its correct form.
121.17–18
hall-mark
124.6–7
over-full
157.16–17
grand-daughter
193.32–33
outworks
215.25–26
grandfather
298.16–17
stage-coach
318.18–19
common-sense
321.19–20
death-bed
324.4–5
thunder-stroke
336.38–39
schoolroom
341.16–17
mantelpiece
373.39–40
common-sense
395.3–4
dining-room
398.2–3
window-panes
425.16–17
whitewashing
438.4–5
chain-mail
440.32–33
uptown
452.13–14
midnight
465.30–31
hand-shake
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This list defines the abbreviations used in this volume and provides full bibliographic information for works cited by an author’s name and a date, a short title, or an abbreviation. Works by members of the Clemens family may be found under the writer’s initials: SLC, OLC, OSC, and CC.
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AMT. 1959. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Edited by Charles Neider. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Andrews, Gregg. 1996. City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Andrews, Kenneth R. 1950. Nook Farm: Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Angel, Myron, ed. 1881. History of Nevada. Oakland, Calif.: Thompson and West. Index in Poulton 1966.
Annual Cyclopaedia 1883. 1884. Appletons’ Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1883. Vol. 23 (n.s. vol. 8). New York: D. Appleton and Co.
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Annual Cyclopaedia 1885. 1886. Appletons’ Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1885. Vol. 25 (n.s. vol. 10). New York: D. Appleton and Co.
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AskART.
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Austen, Roger. 1991. Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard. Edited by John W. Crowley. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Austin, James C.
1953. Fields of “The Atlantic Monthly”: Letters to an Editor, 1861–1870. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library.
1965. Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke). Twayne’s United States Author
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Baedeker, Karl.
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1893. The United States, with an Excursion into Mexico. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker.
1903. Italy: Handbook for Travellers. First Part: Northern Italy. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker.
Baetzhold, Howard G. 1970. Mark Twain and John Bull: The British Connection. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Bailey, Hugh C. 2009. “Edgar Gardner Murphy.” Encyclopedia of Alabama. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id = h-1183. Accessed 4 September 2009.
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Barnard College.
2008a. “The Making of Barnard. From Madison to Morningside.” http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/barnard/timelines/bc1889.htm. Accessed 3 September 2008.
2008b. “Past Barnard Leaders.” http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/president/search/leaders.html. Accessed 3 September 2008.
Beecher, William C., and Rev. Samuel Scoville, assisted by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. 1888. A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co.
Beers, Ethel Lynn. 1861. “The Picket-Guard.” Harper’s Weekly 5 (30 November): 766.
Bell, Raymond Martin. 1984. “The Ancestry of Samuel Clemens, Grandfather of Mark Twain.” 413 Burton Avenue, Washington, Pa.: Raymond Martin Bell. Mimeograph.
Bierce, Ambrose. 1868. “The Pi-Ute Indians of Nevada.” Golden Era 16 (4 July): 2–3.
Biographical Review. 1898. Biographical Review, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of New London County, Connecticut. Atlantic States Series of Biographical Reviews, Vol. 26. Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company.
Bishop, William Henry.
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Bissell, Arthur H., and Thomas B. Kirby, comps. and eds. 1879. The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America, Published in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1879. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
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Boothby, H. E. 1919. “Up from Idolatry.” Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1920, 53–78.
Boston Medical Journal. 1899. “Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D.” Boston Medical Journal (22 April): 973.
Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1854. The New American Practical Navigator. New York: E. and G. W. Blunt.
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Branch, Edgar Marquess.
1985. Men Call Me Lucky: Mark Twain and the “Pennsylvania.” Oxford, Ohio: Friends of the Library Society, Miami University.
1992. “Bixby vs. Carroll: New Light on Sam Clemens’s Early River Career.” Mark Twain Journal 30 (Fall): 2–22.
Brashear, Minnie M. 1935. “Mark Twain’s Niece, Daughter of His Sister, Pamela, Taking Keen Interest in Centennial.” Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, 6 March, 11.
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Brooks, Noah. 1898. “Mark Twain in California.” Century Magazine, n.s. 57 (November): 97–99.
Brougham, John, and John Elderkin, eds. 1875. Lotos Leaves. Boston: William F. Gill and Co.
Brown, Alexander Crosby. 1974. Longboat to Hawaii: An Account of the Voyage of the Clipper Ship Hornet of New York Bound for San Francisco in 1866. Cambridge, Md.: Cornell Maritime Press.
Brown, Curtis. 1899. “Mark Twain Talks.” Buffalo Express, 30 July, 1. Reprinted in Scharn-horst 2006, 340–45.
Brown, John.
1863a. “Pet Marjorie: A Story of Child Life Fifty Years Ago.” North British Review 39 (November): 379–98.
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Budd, Louis J.
1962. Mark Twain: Social Philosopher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1977. “A Listing of and Selection from Newspaper and Magazine Interviews with Samuel L. Clemens, 1874–1910.” American Literary Realism 10 (Winter): iii–100.
1981. “Color Him Curious about Yellow Journalism: Mark Twain and the New York City Press.” Journal of Popular Culture 15 (Fall): 25–33.
1992a. Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852–1890. The Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States.
1992b. Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891–1910. The Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States.
1999. Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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