1835 Born 30 November in Florida, Mo., the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Of his six siblings, only Orion, Pamela, and Henry lived into adulthood. (For details, see the next appendix, “Family Biographies.”)
1839–40 Moves to Hannibal, Mo., on the west bank of the Mississippi River; enters typical western common school in Hannibal (1840).
1842–47 Spends summers at his uncle John Quarles’s farm, near Florida, Mo.
1847 On 24 March his father dies. Leaves school to work as an errand boy and apprentice typesetter for Henry La Cossitt’s Hannibal Gazette.
1848 Apprenticed to Joseph P. Ament, the new editor and owner of the Hannibal Missouri Courier. Works for and lives with Ament until the end of 1850.
1851 In January joins Orion’s newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union, where he soon prints “A Gallant Fireman,” his earliest known published work.
1853–57 After almost three years as Orion’s apprentice, leaves Hannibal in June 1853. Works as a journeyman typesetter in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Muscatine (Iowa), Keokuk (Iowa), and Cincinnati.
1857 On 16 February departs Cincinnati on the Paul Jones, piloted by Horace E. Bixby, who agrees to train him as a Mississippi River pilot.
1858 Henry Clemens dies of injuries from the explosion of the Pennsylvania.
1859 On 9 April officially licensed to pilot steamboats “to and from St. Louis and New Orleans.” By 1861 has served as “a good average” pilot on at least a dozen boats.
1861 Becomes a Freemason (resigns from his lodge in 1869). Works as a commercial pilot until the outbreak of the Civil War. Joins the Hannibal Home Guard, a small band of volunteers with Confederate sympathies. Resigns after two weeks and accompanies Orion to Nevada Territory, where Orion will serve until 1864 as the territorial secretary. Works briefly for Orion, then prospects for silver.
1862 Prospects in the Humboldt and Esmeralda mining districts. Sends contributions signed “Josh” (now lost) to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and in October becomes its local reporter.
1863–64 On 3 February 1863 first signs himself “Mark Twain.” While writing for the Enterprise he becomes Nevada correspondent for the San Francisco Morning Call. To escape prosecution for dueling, moves to San Francisco about 1 June 1864 and for four months works as local reporter for the Call. Writes for the Californian and the Golden Era. In early December visits Jackass Hill in Tuolumne County, Calif.
1865 Visits Angels Camp in Calaveras County, Calif. Returns to San Francisco and begins writing a daily letter for the Enterprise. Continues to write for the Californian. “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” published in the New York Saturday Press on 18 November.
1866 Travels to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) as correspondent for the Sacramento Union, to which he writes twenty-five letters. In October gives his first lecture in San Francisco.
1867 His first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, published in May. Gives first lecture in New York City. Sails on Quaker City to Europe and the Holy Land. Meets Olivia (Livy) Langdon in New York on 27 December. In Washington, D.C., serves briefly as private secretary to Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada.
1868 Lectures widely in eastern and midwestern states. Courts and proposes to Livy, winning her consent in November.
1869 The Innocents Abroad published. With Jervis Langdon’s help, buys one-third interest in the Buffalo Express.
1870 Marries Olivia on 2 February; they settle in Buffalo in a house purchased for them by Jervis Langdon. Son, Langdon, born prematurely on 7 November.
1871 Sells Express and the house and moves to Hartford, Conn. For the next two decades the family will live in Hartford and spend summers at Quarry Farm, in Elmira.
1872 Daughter Olivia Susan (Susy) Clemens born 19 March; son Langdon dies 2 June. Roughing It published in London (securing British copyright) and Hartford. Visits London to lecture in the fall.
1873 Takes family to England and Scotland for five months. Escorts them home (Livy is pregnant) and returns to England alone in November. The Gilded Age, written with Charles Dudley Warner, published in London and Hartford.
1874 Returns home in January; daughter Clara Langdon Clemens born 8 June. The family moves into the house they have built in Hartford.
1875–76 Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old (1875) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) published.
1878–79 Travels with family in Europe.
1880 A Tramp Abroad published. Daughter Jane (Jean) Clemens born 26 July.
1881 Begins to invest in Paige typesetting machine. The Prince and the Pauper published.
1882 Revisits the Mississippi to gather material for Life on the Mississippi, published 1883.
1884–85 Founds publishing house, Charles L. Webster and Co., named for his nephew by marriage, its chief officer. Reading tour with George Washington Cable (November–February). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in London (1884) and New York (1885). Publishes Ulysses S. Grant’s Memoirs (1885).
1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court published.
1891–94 Travels and lives in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, with frequent business trips to the United States. Henry H. Rogers, vice-president of Standard Oil, undertakes to salvage Clemens’s fortunes. In 1894 Webster and Co. declares bankruptcy, and on Rogers’s advice Clemens abandons the Paige machine. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson published serially and as a book in 1894.
1895 In August starts an around-the-world lecture tour to raise money, accompanied by Olivia and Clara; lectures en route to the Pacific Coast and then in Australia and New Zealand.
1896 Lectures in India, Ceylon, and South Africa. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc published. On 18 August Susy dies from meningitis in Hartford. Jean is diagnosed with epilepsy. Resides in London.
1897 Following the Equator published in London and Hartford. Lives in Weggis (Switzerland) and Vienna.
1898 Pays his creditors in full. Lives in Vienna and nearby Kaltenleutgeben.
1899–1901 Resides in London, with stays at European spas. The family returns to the United States in October 1900, living at 14 West 10th Street, New York, then in Riverdale in the Bronx. Publishes “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” (February 1901).
1902 Makes last visit to Hannibal and St. Louis. Olivia’s health deteriorates severely. Isabel V. Lyon, hired as her secretary, is soon secretary to Clemens.
1903 Moves family to rented Villa di Quarto in Florence. Harper and Brothers acquires exclusive rights to all Mark Twain’s work.
1904 Begins dictating autobiography to Lyon; Jean types up her copy. Olivia dies of heart failure in Florence on 5 June. Family returns to the United States. Clemens leases a house at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York.
1905 Spends summer in Dublin, New Hampshire, with Jean. Writes “The War-Prayer.”
1906 Begins Autobiographical Dictations in January. Excerpts will appear in the North American Review, 1906–7. Rents Upton House, Dublin. Commissions John Mead Howells to design a house to be built at Redding, Conn. What Is Man? printed anonymously for private distribution.
1907 Christian Science published. Hires Ralph W. Ashcroft as business assistant. Travels to England to receive honorary degree from Oxford University.
1908 Moves into the Redding house (“Innocence at Home,” then “Stormfield”).
1909 Dismisses Lyon and Ashcroft. Jean rejoins Clemens at Stormfield. Clara marries Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist and conductor, on 6 October. Jean dies of heart failure on 24 December.
1910 Suffers severe angina while in Bermuda; with Paine leaves for New York on 12 April. Dies at Stormfield on 21 April.
For a much more detailed chronology, see Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852–1890 (Budd 1992a, 949–97).
Biographies are provided here only for Clemens’s immediate family—his parents, siblings, wife, and children. Information about other relatives, including Olivia Clemens’s family, may be located through the Index.
John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), Clemens’s father, was born in Virginia. As a youth he moved with his mother and siblings to Kentucky, where he studied law and in 1822 was licensed to practice. He married Jane Lampton the following year. In 1827 the Clemenses relocated to Jamestown, Tennessee, where he opened a store and eventually became a clerk of the county court. In 1835 he moved his family to Missouri, settling first in the village of Florida, where Samuel Clemens was born. Two years later he was appointed judge of Monroe County Court, earning the honorific “Judge,” which young Clemens unwittingly exaggerated into a position of great power. In 1839 he moved the family to Hannibal, where he kept a store on Main Street and was elected justice of the peace, probably in 1844. At the time of his death, he was a candidate for the position of clerk of the circuit court, but died some months before the election. He was regarded as one of the foremost citizens of the county, scrupulously honest, but within his family circle he was taciturn and irritable. A contemporary reference to John Clemens’s “shattered nerves,” together with his extensive use of medicines, may point to some chronic condition. His sudden death from pneumonia in 1847 left the family in genteel poverty. When his father died Clemens was only eleven; he later wrote that “my own knowledge of him amounted to little more than an introduction” ( Inds , 309–11; 4 Sept 1883 to Holcombe, MnHi).
Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–90), Clemens’s mother, was born in Adair County, Kentucky. Her marriage to the dour and humorless John Marshall Clemens was not a love match: late in life she confided to her family that she had married to spite another suitor. She bore seven children, of whom only four (Orion, Pamela, Samuel, and Henry [1838–58]) survived at the time of her husband’s death in 1847. The widowed Jane left Hannibal, Missouri, and between 1853 and 1870 lived in Muscatine, and possibly Keokuk, Iowa, and in St. Louis, Missouri, initially as part of Orion Clemens’s household and then with her daughter, Pamela Moffett. After Clemens married and settled in Buffalo, New York, in 1870, Jane set up house in nearby Fredonia with the widowed Pamela. In 1882 she moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where she lived with Orion for the rest of her life. She was buried in Hannibal’s Mount Olivet Cemetery, alongside her husband and her son Henry. Her Hannibal pastor called her “a woman of the sunniest temperament, lively, affable, a general favorite” (Wecter 1952, 86). She was the model for Aunt Polly in Tom Sawyer (1876), Huckleberry Finn (1885), and other works. After her death in 1890 Clemens wrote a moving tribute to her, “Jane Lampton Clemens” ( Inds , 82–92, 311).
Orion (pronounced O'-ree-ən) Clemens (1825–97), Clemens’s older brother, was born in Gainesboro, Tennessee. After the Clemens family’s move to Hannibal, Missouri, he was apprenticed to a printer. In 1850 he started the Hannibal Western Union, and the following year became the owner of the Hannibal Journal as well, employing Clemens and Henry, their younger brother, as typesetters. In 1853, shortly after Clemens left home to travel, Orion moved with his mother and Henry to Muscatine, Iowa. There he married Mary (Mollie) Stotts (1834–1904), who bore him a daughter, Jennie, in 1855. He campaigned for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860, and through the influence of a friend was rewarded with an appointment as secretary of the newly formed Nevada Territory (1861). Mollie and Jennie joined him there in 1862; Jennie died in 1864 of spotted fever. That year Nevada became a state, and Orion could not obtain a post comparable to his territorial position. Over the next two decades he struggled to earn a living as a proofreader, inventor, chicken farmer, lawyer, lecturer, and author. From the mid-1870s until his death in 1897, Orion was supported by an amused and exasperated Clemens, who said that “he was always honest and honorable” but “he was always dreaming; he was a dreamer from birth” ( Inds , 311–13; see AutoMT1 , 451–55 and notes on 643–44).
Pamela (pronounced Pə-mee'-la) A. (Clemens) Moffett (1827–1904), also known as “Pamelia” or “Mela,” was Clemens’s older sister. Born in Jamestown, Tennessee, after the Clemens family’s move to Hannibal she attended Elizabeth Horr’s school and in November 1840 was commended by her teacher for her “amiable deportment and faithful application to her various studies.” Pamela played piano and guitar, and in the 1840s helped support the family by giving music lessons. In September 1851, she married William Anderson Moffett (1816–65), a commission merchant, and moved to St. Louis. Their children were Annie (1852–1950) and Samuel (1860–1908). From 1870 Pamela lived in Fredonia, New York. Clemens called Pamela “a lifelong invalid”; she was probably the model for Tom’s cousin Mary in Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and other works ( Inds , 313).
Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens (1845–1904), familiarly known as “Livy,” was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the daughter of wealthy coal merchant Jervis Langdon (1809–70) and Olivia Lewis Langdon (1810–90). The Langdons were strongly religious, reformist, and abolitionist. Livy’s education, in the 1850s and 1860s, was a combination of home tutoring and classes at Thurston’s Female Seminary and Elmira Female College. Always delicate, her health deteriorated into invalidism for a time between 1860 and 1864. “She was never strong again while her life lasted,” Clemens said in 1906. Clemens was first introduced to the shy and serious Livy in December 1867; he soon began an earnest and protracted courtship, conducted largely through letters. They married in February 1870 and settled in Buffalo, New York, in a house purchased for them by Livy’s father; their first child, Langdon Clemens, was born there in November. In 1871 they moved, as renters, to the Nook Farm neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut, and quickly became an integral part of the social life of that literary and intellectual enclave. They purchased land and built the distinctive house which was their home from 1874 to 1891. Young Langdon died in 1872, but three daughters were born: Olivia Susan (Susy) in 1872, Clara in 1874, and Jane (Jean) in 1880. Clara later recalled her mother’s “unselfish, tender nature—combined with a complete understanding, both intellectual and human, of her husband”; she took “care of everything pertaining to house and home, which included hospitality to many guests,” and made “time for lessons in French and German as well as hours for reading aloud to my sisters and me” (CC 1931, 24–25). To her adoring husband, whom she addressed fondly as “Youth,” Livy was “my faithful, judicious, and painstaking editor” ( AutoMT1 , 354–59). In June 1891, with their expenses mounting and Clemens’s investments draining his earnings as well as Livy’s personal income, they permanently closed the Hartford house and left for a period of retrenchment in Europe; thenceforth Livy’s life was spent in temporary quarters, hotel suites, and rented houses. When Clemens was forced to declare bankruptcy in April 1894, the family’s financial future was salvaged by the expedient of giving Livy “preferred creditor” status and assigning all Clemens’s copyrights to her. In 1895–96 she and Clara accompanied Clemens on his round-the-world lecture tour. The death of her daughter Susy in 1896 was a blow from which she never recovered. She died of heart failure in Italy in June 1904.
Olivia Susan Clemens (1872–96), known as “Susy,” was Clemens’s eldest daughter. Her early education was conducted largely at home by her mother and, for several years starting in 1880, by a governess. Her talents for writing, dramatics, and music were soon apparent. At thirteen, she secretly began to write a biography of Clemens, much of which he later incorporated into his autobiography; it is a charming portrait of idyllic family life. Susy accompanied her parents to England in 1873 and for a longer stay abroad in 1878–79. In the fall of 1890 she left home to attend Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, but completed only one semester. In June 1891, the Clemenses closed the Hartford house, and the family, including Susy, left for a period of retrenchment in Europe that would last until mid-1895. Susy attended schools in Geneva and Berlin and took language and voice lessons, but increasingly she suffered from physical and nervous complaints for which her parents sought treatments including “mind cure” and hydrotherapy. After the European sojourn Susy chose not to go with her father, mother, and sister Clara on Clemens’s lecture trip around the world (1895–96); she and her sister Jean stayed at the Elmira, New York, home of their aunt Susan Crane. In August 1896, while visiting her childhood home in Hartford, Susy came down with a fever, which proved to be spinal meningitis. She died while her mother and sister were making the transatlantic journey to be with her. “The cloud is permanent, now,” Clemens wrote in his notebook (Notebook 40, TS p. 8, CU-MARK; see AutoMT1 , 323–28).
Clara Langdon Clemens (1874–1962), called “Bay,” was Clemens’s second daughter. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she was mostly educated at home by her mother and governesses. During the family’s sojourn in Europe between 1891 and 1895, Clara enjoyed more independence than her sisters, returning alone to Berlin to study music. She was the only one of Clemens’s daughters to go with him and Livy on their 1895–96 trip around the world. The death of her sister Susy, and the first epileptic seizure of her other sister, Jean, both came in 1896: “It was a long time before anyone laughed in our household,” Clara recalled (CC 1931, 179). The family settled in Vienna in 1897. Clara aspired to be a pianist, studying under Theodor Leschetizky, through whom she met the young Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936). By 1898 Clara’s vocation had changed from pianist to singer, a career in which she found more indulgence than acclaim. After her mother’s death in 1904 Clara suffered a breakdown and was intermittently away from her family at rest cures in 1905 and 1906. She was financially dependent on her father but spent less and less time in his household, traveling and giving occasional recitals. Increasingly suspicious of the control exerted by Isabel V. Lyon and Ralph Ashcroft over her father and his finances, Clara convinced Clemens to dismiss the pair in 1909. She married Gabrilowitsch in 1909; their daughter, Nina Gabrilowitsch (1910–66), was Clemens’s last direct descendant. Between 1904 and 1910 Clara lost her mother, her sister Jean, and her father; at the age of thirty-five, she was sole heir to the estate of Mark Twain, which was held in trust for her, not to be disposed in its entirety until her own death. For the rest of her life she used her influence to control the public representation of her father. Gabrilowitsch died in 1936; in 1944 Clara married Russian conductor Jacques Samossoud (1894–1966). Her memoir of Clemens, My Father, Mark Twain, was published in 1931. She spent the last decades of her life in Southern California. Clara’s bequest of Clemens’s personal papers to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, formed the basis of the Mark Twain Papers now housed in The Bancroft Library.
Jean (Jane Lampton) Clemens (1880–1909), Clemens’s youngest daughter, was named after his mother but was always called Jean. Like her sisters, she was educated largely at home. In 1896, however, she was attending school in Elmira, New York, when she suffered a severe epileptic seizure. Sedatives were prescribed, and for the next several years her anxious parents tried to forestall the progress of her illness, even spending the summer of 1899 in Sweden so that she could be treated by the well-known osteopath Jonas Kellgren. Her condition, which worsened after her mother’s death in 1904, and the household’s frequent relocations, gave Jean little chance to develop an independent existence. In late 1899 she began teaching herself how to type so that she could transcribe her father’s manuscripts. She also loved riding and other outdoor activities, and espoused animal and human-rights causes. In October 1906 Jean was sent to a sanatorium in Katonah, New York, and remained in “exile” until April 1909, when she rejoined her father at Stormfield, in Redding, Connecticut. Over the next months she enjoyed a close, happy relationship with him and took over Isabel Lyon’s duties as secretary. Jean died at Stormfield on 24 December 1909, apparently of a heart attack suffered during a seizure. Over the next few days Clemens wrote a heart-breaking reminiscence of her entitled “Closing Words of My Autobiography.”
Below is a list of each piece in this volume, identifying its earliest publication, if any. Separate publications of the various writings that Clemens incorporated into the Autobiography, such as speeches, letters, and literary works, are not tracked, unless the published text was based on the autobiographical dictation. The designation “partial” may mean publication of anything from an excerpt to a nearly complete piece. Short quotations from the typescripts in critical or biographical works are not accounted for. Charles Neider, the editor of The Autobiography of Mark Twain (AMT), reordered and recombined excerpts to such an extent that all publication in his volume is considered “partial.” At the end of this appendix is a list of the “Chapters from My Autobiography” published in installments in North American Review (NAR) between 7 September 1906 and December 1907. All works cited by an abbreviation or short title are fully cited in References.
Autobiographical Dictations, April 1906–February 1907
2 April 1906: NAR 11, 229–32, partial; MTA, 2:303–10; AMT, 103–6.
3 April 1906: NAR 2, 459–60, partial; MTE, 33–34, 252–53, partial.
4 April 1906: MTA, 2: 310–16, partial.
5 April 1906: NAR 12, 337–41, partial; MTA, 2:316–25, partial; AMT, 106–7, 218–21.
6 April 1906: NAR 12, 341–44, partial; MTA, 2:325–32, partial; AMT, 221–24.
9 April 1906: MTA, 2:332–40, partial.
10 April 1906: MTA, 2:340–49.
11 April 1906: MTA, 2:349–57, partial; AMT, 170–74.
21 May 1906: NAR 2, 449–53; MTE, 143–48; AMT, 152–54, 158–59.
23 May 1906: MTE, 148–55; AMT, 159–61, 225–27.
24 May 1906: MTE, 155–65; AMT, 227–33.
26 May 1906: MTE, 165–70; AMT, 233–36.
28 May 1906: MTE, 170–79; AMT, 236–41, 245–46.
29 May 1906: MTE, 179–82, partial; AMT, 246–48.
31 May 1906: AMT, 248–51.
1 June 1906: MTE, 182–86, partial; AMT, 251–54.
2 June 1906: MTE, 186–95, partial; AMT, 254–58, 263–64.
4 June 1906: SLC 1902d, partial; AMT, 325–28.
6 June 1906: AMT, 328–32.
7 June 1906: AMT, 332–43.
11 June 1906: previously unpublished.
12 June 1906: SLC 2009b.
13 June 1906: SLC 1922a, 455–58, partial; MTE, 254–63; AMT, 119–24.
14 June 1906: SLC 1922a, 458–60, partial; MTE, 263–68; AMT, 124–27.
18 June 1906: previously unpublished.
19 June 1906: SLC 1963, 332–35.
20 June 1906: SLC 1963, 335–38; AutoMT1-RE, 411–14.
22 June 1906: SLC 1963, 338–43.
23 June 1906: SLC 1963, 343–49.
25 June 1906: SLC 1963, 349–52.
17 July 1906: previously unpublished.
30 July 1906: AMT, 79–81.
31 July 1906: MTE, 200–211, partial; AMT, 268–71, 272–74.
6 August 1906: previously unpublished.
7 August 1906: previously unpublished.
8 August 1906: AMT, 284–86.
10 August 1906: previously unpublished.
11 August 1906: MTE, 35, 309–10, partial; AMT, 286.
13 August 1906: MTE, 310–12; AMT, 286–88.
15 August 1906: MTE, 107–10; AMT, 31–33.
27 August 1906: SLC 2009c.
28 August 1906: previously unpublished.
29 August 1906: MTE, 243–49, partial; AMT, 275–78.
30 August 1906: SLC 1922b, 310–12, partial; MTE, 196–200, partial; AMT, 264–67; SLC 2004, 46–47, partial.
31 August 1906: AMT, 81–83, 143–47.
3 September 1906: previously unpublished.
4 September 1906: SLC 2010a, 181–86.
5 September 1906: NAR 19, 247–51.
7 September 1906: MTE, 380–83, partial; AMT, 345–47.
10 September 1906: MTE, 228–39.
2 October 1906: MTE, 384–93, partial.
3 October 1906: previously unpublished.
4 October 1906: previously unpublished.
5 October 1906: previously unpublished.
8 October 1906: NAR 15, 673–77.
9 October 1906: NAR 24, 327–28.
10 October 1906: NAR 22, 8–12; AMT, 309–13.
11 October 1906: NAR 24, 330, partial; AMT, 162.
12 October 1906: NAR 24, 330–31; AMT, 162–63.
15 October 1906: NAR 17, 1–4, partial; SLC 2010a, 186–87, partial.
16 October 1906: NAR 24, 328–30; MTE, 136–39; AMT, 47–48.
30 October 1906: MTE, 139–42, partial; AMT, 48–50.
7 November 1906: LE, 159–63.
8 November 1906: NAR 21, 689–91, partial.
19 November 1906: NAR 19, 243–45, partial.
20 November 1906: previously unpublished.
21 November 1906: previously unpublished.
22 November 1906: previously unpublished.
23 November 1906: previously unpublished.
24 November 1906: MTE, 372–80; AMT, 279–83.
30 November 1906: NAR 19, 245–47, partial; MTE, 110–18, partial; AMT, 58–63.
1 December 1906: NAR 9, 5–9; MTE, 118–25; AMT, 50–54.
2 December 1906: NAR 9, 9–14; MTE, 125–31; AMT, 54–58.
3 December 1906: MTE, 131–36.
5 December 1906: MTE, 211–13, partial; AMT, 271–72.
6 December 1906: NAR 14, 561–65.
13 December 1906: NAR 9, 1–5; MTE, 61–66.
17 December 1906: NAR 14, 565–67, partial.
18 December 1906: previously unpublished.
19 December 1906: previously unpublished.
20 December 1906: NAR 22, 17–21.
21 December 1906; NAR 18, 113–18, 119–22, partial; NAR 19, 241–43, partial.
26 December 1906: AMT, 63–67.
27 December 1906: previously unpublished.
28 December 1906: Harnsberger 1948, 48–50, partial.
29 December 1906: previously unpublished.
6 January 1907: NAR 21, 695–98.
9 January 1907: previously unpublished.
15 January 1907: MTE, 66–70, partial; SLC 2007, 95–101, partial.
17 January 1907: previously unpublished.
22 January 1907: NAR 15, 677–82.
23 January 1907: NAR 20, 471–74, partial; NAR 24, 331–36, partial; AMT, 130–38.
28 January 1907: MTE, 70–77, partial; SLC 2010b, partial.
29 January 1907: previously unpublished.
30 January 1907: MTE, 81–83, 91–96.
1 February 1907: previously unpublished.
4 February 1907: MTE, 268–92, partial; AMT, 127–29, 294–309.
11 February 1907: NAR 14 (misdated 10 February), 567–68, partial; MTB, 2:940–43, partial.
12 February 1907: NAR 14, 568–70.
19 February 1907: Aaron Watson 1907, 131–35.
25 February 1907: previously unpublished.
26 February 1907: previously unpublished.
27 February 1907: SLC 1905d, 391, partial.
28 February 1907: previously unpublished.
“Chapters from My Autobiography” in the North American Review, 1906–1907
The texts listed below in italic type were published in full or nearly so—that is, with no more than a paragraph or occasional sentence omitted.
| Installment | Published | Contents |
| NAR 1 | 7 Sept 1906 | AD, 26 Mar 1906 (Introduction); My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It] (first part) |
| NAR 2 | 21 Sept 1906 | AD, 21 May 1906; Scraps from My Autobiography. From Chapter IX (first part); [Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Bailey Aldrich]; AD, 3 Apr 1906 |
| NAR 3 | 5 Oct 1906 | ADs, 1 Feb 1906, 2 Feb 1906, 5 Feb 1906 |
| NAR 4 | 19 Oct 1906 | ADs, 7 Feb 1906, 8 Feb 1906 |
| NAR 5 | 2 Nov 1906 | ADs, 9 Feb 1906, 12 Feb 1906 |
| NAR 6 | 16 Nov 1906 | ADs, 26 Feb 1906, 7 Mar 1906, 22 Mar 1906 |
| NAR 7 | 7 Dec 1906 | ADs, 5 Mar 1906, 6 Mar 1906, 23 Mar 1906 |
| NAR 8 | 21 Dec 1906 | AD, 19 Jan 1906 |
| NAR 9 | 4 Jan 1907 | ADs, 13 Dec 1906, 1 Dec 1906, 2 Dec 1906 |
| NAR 10 | 18 Jan 1907 | ADs, 28 Mar 1906, 29 Mar 1906 |
| NAR 11 | 1 Feb 1907 | ADs, 29 Mar 1906 (misdated 28 Mar in the NAR), 2 Apr 1906 |
| NAR 12 | 15 Feb 1907 | [John Hay]; ADs, 5 Apr 1906, 6 Apr 1906 |
| NAR 13 | 1 Mar 1907 | My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It] (second part) |
| NAR 14 | 15 Mar 1907 | ADs, 6 Dec 1906, 17 Dec 1906, 11 Feb 1907 (misdated 10 Feb in the NAR), 12 Feb 1907, 17 Jan 1906 |
| NAR 15 | 5 Apr 1907 | ADs, 8 Oct 1906, 22 Jan 1907 |
| NAR 16 | 19 Apr 1907 | ADs, 12 Jan 1906, 13 Jan 1906, 15 Jan 1906 |
| NAR 17 | 3 May 1907 | AD, 15 Oct 1906; Scraps from My Autobiography. From Chapter IX (second part) |
| NAR 18 | 17 May 1907 | ADs, 21 Dec 1906, 28 Mar 1907 |
| NAR 19 | 7 June 1907 | ADs, 21 Dec 1906 (with note dated 22 Dec), 19 Nov 1906, 30 Nov 1906, 5 Sept 1906 |
| NAR 20 | 5 July 1907 | Notes on “Innocents Abroad”; AD, 23 Jan 1907 |
| NAR 21 | 2 Aug 1907 | ADs, 8 Nov 1906, 8 Mar 1906, 6 Jan 1907 |
| NAR 22 | Sept 1907 | ADs, 10 Oct 1906, 19 Jan 1906 (dated 12 Mar 1906 in the NAR, with note dated 13 May 1907), 20 Dec 1906 |
| NAR 23 | Oct 1907 | ADs, 9 Mar 1906, 16 Mar 1906, 26 July 1907, 30 July 1907 |
| NAR 24 | Nov 1907 | ADs, 9 Oct 1906, 16 Oct 1906, 11 Oct 1906, 12 Oct 1906, 23 Jan 1907 |
| NAR 25 | Dec 1907 | ADs, 11 Jan 1906, 3 Oct 1907 |