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Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1

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by Mark Twain


  Barnard, Henry

  Barnard College

  Barnes, Benjamin F.

  Barnes, George Eustace

  Barrett, Lawrence

  Bates, Edward

  Batterson, James G.

  Bayard the Spotless (Pierre du Terrail)

  Bay State Gas Company

  Beatty, Jean Burlingame (Mrs. Robert Chetwood Beatty)

  “Beauties of the German Language,”

  Beck, Henry

  Beecher, Henry Ward

  SLC’s letters to

  Beecher, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K.

  Belgium

  Ben Franklin Book and Job Office

  Bermingham, Ellen (Nellie)

  Bermuda

  Bernhardt, Sarah

  Berry, Mrs.

  Bierce, Ambrose

  “Big Bonanza” silver strike

  Billings, Josh. See Shaw, Henry Wheeler

  Bishop, William Henry

  Bispham, William

  Bixby, Horace E.

  Black, William

  Blackstone, William

  Blaine, James G.. See also Cleveland-Blaine election

  Blankenship, Tom

  Blind, associations for. See also Keller, Helen

  Bliss, Elisha P., Jr.

  Bliss, Francis

  Bok, Edward

  Bolton, William Compton

  Bonaparte, Catherine, Princess

  Bonaparte, Jérôme

  Bonaparte, Napoleon

  Booth, Edwin

  Booth, John Wilkes

  Boston Evening Transcript

  Boston Globe

  Boston Herald

  Boston Lyceum Bureau. See Redpath Lyceum Bureau

  Boston Massacre

  Boston Saturday Evening Gazette

  Boston Sunday Post

  Boutwell, George S.

  Bowen, Barton Stone

  Bowen, Samuel Adams, Jr.

  Bowen, William

  Briggs, Artemissa (Mrs. William J. Marsh)

  Briggs, Emily Edson

  Briggs, John B.

  Brookline Gas Company

  Brooklyn Bridge

  Brooks, Noah

  Brooks, Preston S. (“Potter”)

  Brown, Anna Marsh (Mrs. Talmage Brown)

  Brown, Alex

  Brown, Isabella Cranston

  Brown, Jake

  Brown, John (abolitionist)

  Brown, John (Dr.)

  letters from

  letters to

  “Rab and His Friends,”

  relationship with Susy Clemens

  SLC’s regret about not making last visit

  Brown, John (Jock)

  Brown, John Taylor

  Brown, Mr. (steamboat pilot)

  Brown, Owen

  Brown, Talmage

  Brown, William

  Browning, Robert

  Buckland, Francis Trevelyan

  Buckly, Mr.

  Buell, Dwight H.

  Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Courier

  Grover Cleveland as mayor and sheriff

  SLC and OLC’s difficult year

  SLC and OLC’s first home after marriage

  Buffalo Express

  SLC’s eulogy of Burlingame

  Buffum, Arnold

  Burglar alarm: Goodwin’s

  SLC’s

  Bunce, Edward M.

  Burk, George

  Burlingame, Anson

  Burlingame, Edward L.

  Burns, Anthony

  Burns, Robert

  Burton, Nathaniel J.

  Bushnell, Horace

  Butler, Andrew Jackson

  Butler, Benjamin Franklin

  Butler, George H.

  Butters, Henry A.

  Bynner, Witter

  Cable, George Washington

  lecture tour with SLC

  visit to Governor Cleveland with SLC

  Cadets of Temperance

  Caesar, Julius

  Caldwell, Samuel L.

  California: SLC’s lecture tours

  SLC’s trip to Jackass Hill and Angels Camp. See also Sacramento Union; San Francisco

  Californian (periodical)

  “A Call with W. D. Howells on General Grant,”

  Campbell, Alexander

  Campbell, Thomas

  Campbell, William Wilfred

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carroll, Lewis. See Charles L. Dodgson

  Carryl, Charles E.

  Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo

  Case, Newton

  Cash, Mr. (New York Herald employee)

  Cauchon, Pierre

  Cavallotti, Felice Carlo Emmanuele

  Cellini, Benvenuto

  Century Company: employment of Hobby and Paine

  negotiations to publish Grant’s memoirs

  Century Magazine

  Noah Brooks’s biographical sketch of SLC

  publication of Grant’s war articles

  publication of SLC’s writings

  Ceylon

  Chaffee, Fannie Josephine

  Chaffee, Jerome B.

  Chamberlaine, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus P.

  Chapman, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jesse Grant)

  Chapman, Rawley

  Chapman, Rosamond Hart

  “The Character of Man” manuscript

  Charles I (king of England)

  Charles II (king of England)

  Charles L. Webster and Company: failure

  publication of Grant’s memoirs

  publication of McClellan’s Own Story

  publication of Sheridan’s Personal Memoirs

  publication of SLC’s books. See also Webster, Charles L.

  Charlotte (servant)

  Chaykovsky, Nikolai Vasilievich

  Cheney, Frank Woodbridge

  Cheney, Mary Bushnell

  “The Chicago G. A. R. Festival,”

  Chicago Republican: SLC as Washington, D.C., correspondent

  Childs, George W.

  China: Grant’s concern for students

  political unrest (1906)

  Chin Lan Pin (“Wong”)

  Choate, Joseph H.

  Chowning, Thomas Jefferson

  The Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar)

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Clark, Charles Hopkins

  Clemens, Benjamin: birth and death

  Clemens, Clara Langdon (Bay)

  biography

  birth

  childhood and youth

  Clemens family plays and charades

  collaboration with Paine

  death of mother

  letters from

  letters to

  marriage

  opinion of Autobiographical Dictations

  relationship with Susy Clemens

  travel

  Clemens, Ezekiel

  Clemens, Henry: birth

  childhood and youth

  death

  prototype for Sid in Tom Sawyer

  Clemens, James

  Clemens, James, Jr.

  Clemens, Jane Lampton

  ancestry

  biography

  death of Henry Clemens

  facility with words

  letters from

  letters to

  marriage

  on SLC’s character

  on SLC’s drinking and swearing

  prototype for Aunt Polly

  slaves owned or hired

  SLC’s childhood

  Clemens, Jean (Jane Lampton)

  “Anecdote of Jean,”

  biography

  birth

  childhood and youth

  Clemens family plays and charades

  “Closing Words of My Autobiography,”

  death

  death of Susy Clemens

  German nursemaid

  health

  letters from

  love of animals

  travel

  typewriting and SLC typescripts

  Clemens, Jeremiah (1732–1811)

  Clemens, Jeremia
h (1814–65)

  Clemens, John Marshall: biography

  as county judge

  death

  financial problems

  as justice of the peace

  marriage

  religion

  slaves owned or hired

  Tennessee land

  undemonstrative nature

  Clemens, Langdon: birth and death

  health

  infant habits

  Clemens, Margaret

  Clemens, Mary Eleanor Stotts (Mrs. Orion Clemens)

  Clemens, Olivia Louise Langdon (Livy): biography

  birth of Clara Clemens

  birth of Jean Clemens

  birth and death of Langdon Clemens

  birth and death of Susy Clemens

  Clemens family plays and charades

  courtship, engagement, and wedding

  diary

  as editor of SLC’s books

  family history

  father’s final illness

  financial matters

  health

  illness and death

  letters from

  letters to

  relationship with daughters

  relationship with SLC

  servants

  SLC’s description

  spelling ability

  travel

  Clemens, Olivia Susan (Susy): biography

  birth

  childhood and youth

  Clemens family plays and charades

  compared to Marjory Fleming

  compassion for animals

  illness and death

  nicknames (Megalopis, Wee Wifie)

  play A Love-Chase

  poem mis-attributed

  relationship with Dr. Brown

  relationship with mother

  relationship with sisters

  Sarah Bernhardt imitations

  spelling ability

  travel

  visit to Grant with SLC

  “What is it all for?” question

  SUSY’S BIOGRAPHY OF SLC

  Adventures of Huckle-berry Finn

  Clemens family history

  excerpts

  Jervis Langdon

  Langdon Clemens

  Langdon family

  The Prince and the Pauper

  SLC and OLC’s first house

  SLC and OLC’s first meeting

  SLC and OLC’s marriage

  SLC’s appearance

  SLC’s childhood antics

  SLC’s drinking and swearing

  SLC’s early adulthood

  SLC’s failures to comprehend

  SLC’s gait

  SLC’s love letters

  SLC’s names for cats

  SLC’s not going to church

  trip to New York

  trip to England and Scotland

  Clemens, Orion: adventure in home of Dr. Meredith

  Ben Franklin Book and Job Office (Keokuk)

  biography

  birth

  buys Muscatine Journal

  law career

  marriage

  middle-of-night visit to young lady

  personality

  as printer’s apprentice in St. Louis

  relationship with Bates

  requests permission to publish anecdotes about SLC’s childhood

  as secretary of Nevada Territory

  starts Hannibal Western Union and then buys Hannibal Journal

  Tennessee land

  writes autobiography

  Clemens, Pamela. See Moffett, Pamela A. Moffett

  Clemens, Pleasant Hannibal

  Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain): appearance

  birth

  chronology of life

  Civil War service

  death

  Freemasonry

  health

  Oxford degree

  seventieth birthday dinner

  University of Missouri degree

  ATTITUDES AND HABITS: churchgoing

  compliments

  dinner table behavior

  dueling

  eating and drinking

  exercise

  grammar, punctuation, and spelling

  laziness

  lying

  Presbyterian conscience

  sleeping

  swearing

  tobacco use

  writing speed

  BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL MATTERS: American Plasmon Company

  bankruptcy and hardship

  business ability

  employment stratagem

  Paige electromagnetic motor

  Paige printing telegraph

  Paige typesetting machine

  Tennessee land. See also American Publishing Company; Charles L. Webster and Company; Harper and Brothers; Osgood, James Ripley

  CHILDHOOD: earliest recollections

  education and schoolmates

  left behind by family

  misadventures

  relationship with mother

  summers at Quarles farm

  sweethearts. See also Florida, Mo.; Hannibal, Mo.

  COURTSHIP, ENGAGEMENT, AND MARRIAGE

  FAMILY: ancestry and genealogy. See also individual Clemens, Crane, Lampton, Langdon, Moffett, Quarles, and Webster family members

  JOURNALISM

  The Back Number

  Buffalo Express

  Californian

  Chicago Republican

  criticism of newspapers

  Golden Era

  Hannibal Journal and Western Union

  Hannibal Western Union

  Newspaper Correspondence Syndicate

  New York Herald

  New York Saturday Press

  New York Sunday Mercury

  New York Tribune

  Sacramento Union

  San Francisco Alta California

  San Francisco Morning Call

 

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