Autobiographical Dictations

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 January 1906

• Description: I shall scatter through this Autobiography newspaper clippings without end...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 January 1906

• Description: I have to make several speeches within the next two or three months...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 January 1906

• Description: I received the following letter some days ago, from Mrs. Laura K. Hudson...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 January 1906

• Description: This talk about Mr. Whittier's seventieth birthday reminds me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 January 1906

• Description: The piety-ending was used also by Franklin and Johnson, and possibly by the rest...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 January 1906

• Description: Rev. Dr. Burton swung his leonine head around, focused me with his eye...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 January 1906

• Description: That incident made a strong impression upon me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 January 1906

• Description: With considerable frequency, since then, I have tried to get publishers...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 January 1906

• Description: Senator Tilman, of South Carolina, has been making a speech...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 January 1906

• Description: In those early days dueling suddenly became a fashion...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 January 1906

• Description: There was a great mass meeting at Carnegie Hall last night...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 January 1906

• Description: It is plain, I think, that this old article was written about twenty-two years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 February 1906

• Description: Joe was not quite present. It was not etiquette for him...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 February 1906

• Description: It explained that Susy was slightly ill...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 February 1906

• Description: His was a sweet and winning face...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 February 1906

• Description: When Susy was twelve and a half years old, I took to the platform again...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 February 1906

• Description: When Susy was thirteen, and was a slender little maid...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 February 1906

• Description: Along one side of the library, in the Hartford home, the bookshelves joined...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 February 1906

• Description: Susy's remark about my strong language troubles me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 February 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 February 1906

• Description: I recall several of them without much difficulty...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 February 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 February 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 February 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 February 1906

• Description: It is death-notices like this that enable me to realize in some sort...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 February 1906

• Description: But I am wandering far from Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 February 1906

• Description: I have wandered far from Susy's chat about her grandfather...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 February 1906

• Description: During the previous year or year and a half...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 February 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 March 1906

• Description: I was always heedless...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 March 1906

• Description: I was very anxious to keep him in his place...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 March 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 March 1906

• Description: It turned out just so...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 March 1906

• Description: I am talking of a time sixty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 March 1906

• Description: We will stop talking about my schoolmates of sixty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 March 1906

• Description: The ominous paralysis continues...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 March 1906

• Description: POLICE HUSTLE CROWD AWAITING MARK TWAIN...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 March 1906

• Description: We will return to those school children of sixty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 March 1906

• Description: One of the standing delights of the American nation...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 March 1906

• Description: Certainly mental telegraphy is an industry which is always silently at work...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 March 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 March 1906

• Description: A good many years ago Mrs. Clemens used to keep...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 March 1906

• Description: ROCKEFELLER, JR., ON WEALTH...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 March 1906

• Description: I have allowed Higbie to assist...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 March 1906

• Description: My brother's experience was another conspicuous example...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 March 1906

• Description: But I am in error. Orion did not come...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 March 1906

• Description: I will drop Orion for the present and return...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 April 1906

• Description: PROMOTION FOR BARNES...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 April 1906

• Description: BARNES'S APPOINTMENT ANGERS WASHINGTON...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 April 1906

• Description: MRS. MORRIS CASE IN SENATE...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 April 1906

• Description: Am I standing upon the world's back and looking east...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 April 1906

• Description: This house is No. 21 Fifth Avenue...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 April 1906

• Description: This morning's mail brings me from France a letter...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 April 1906

• Description: When "Huck Finn" was flung out of the Concord Public Library...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 April 1906

• Description: I am not glancing through my books to find out...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 May 1906

• Description: We are to abide here in the green solitude of the woods...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 May 1906

• Description: But I must go back to Webb...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 May 1906

• Description: My opportunity was now come to right myself...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 May 1906

• Description: As I have already remarked, I had imported my nephew-in-law...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 May 1906

• Description: Webster conceived the idea that he had discovered me to the world...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 May 1906

• Description: His new quarters were on the second or third floor...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 May 1906

• Description: This is a magnificent morning...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 June 1906

• Description: Whenever galley-proofs or revises went to General Grant...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 June 1906

• Description: I suspected that the bookkeeper, Scott, was going to have...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 June 1906

• Description: To-morrow will be the 5th of June...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 June 1906

• Description: York Harbor consists of a widely scattered cluster...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 June 1906

• Description: Several times, in letters written to friends, in those days...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 June 1906

• Description: After a week of silence and inanition I hardly know...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 June 1906

• Description: During fifty-six years, the whole great globe...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 June 1906

• Description: How wonderful are the ways of Providence...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 June 1906

• Description: Harte was paid for setting type only...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 June 1906

• Description: Let me consider that I have now been dead...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 June 1906

• Description: Our Bible reveals to us the character of our God...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 June 1906

• Description: There are one or two curious defects about Bibles...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 June 1906

• Description: For two years, now, Christianity has been repeating, in Russia...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 June 1906

• Description: Let us now consider the real God...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 June 1906

• Description: It is to these celestial bandits...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 July 1906

• Description: Five or six weeks ago, when I was dictating...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 July 1906

• Description: I am back again in this country house...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 July 1906

• Description: Colonel Harvey will arrive here to-night...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 August 1906

• Description: Let us go back three months, now...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 August 1906

• Description: Who saves my soul does me a service...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 August 1906

• Description: There is one great trouble about dictating...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 August 1906

• Description: This morning's mail brings me this clipping...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 August 1906

• Description: From the beginning of time, philosophers of all breeds...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 August 1906

• Description: The group sat on the veranda...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 August 1906

• Description: My school days began when I was four years and a half old...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 August 1906

• Description: Several weeks ago, in Chapter XLI...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 August 1906

• Description: Higbie's reply had come...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 August 1906

• Description: In this morning's mail comes a letter from a stranger...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 August 1906

• Description: I was never willing to destroy...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 August 1906

• Description: Around about here, in the New Hampshire woods and hills...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 September 1906

• Description: We carried out our project at the club...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 September 1906

• Description: There is one thing which fills me with wonder...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 September 1906

• Description: It is years since I have examined the Children's Record...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 September 1906

• Description: For good or for evil, we continue to educate Europe...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 September 1906

• Description: I have not yet finished about the British Premier...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 October 1906

• Description: I have been to New York and to Fairhaven again...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 October 1906

• Description: Yesterday I mentioned that on 22d of September...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 October 1906

• Description: It was my purpose, yesterday morning, to talk about...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 October 1906

• Description: Several weeks ago I injected into one of these chapters...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 October 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 October 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 October 1906

• Description: I couldn't finish, yesterday...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 October 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 October 1906

• Description: I broke off there yesterday...

Autobiographical Dictation of 15 October 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 October 1906

• Description: Warner is gone. Stockton is gone....

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 October 1906

• Description: I remember a circumstance in support of this conviction....

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 November 1906

• Description: The first time I was in Egypt....

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 November 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 November 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 November 1906

• Description: Georgia Cayvan is dead....

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 November 1906

• Description: Before I close this talk about methods of raising money....

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 November 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 November 1906

• Description: I was supposing that I had said, yesterday....

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 November 1906

• Description: I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because....

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 November 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 December 1906

• Description: An exciting event in our village (Hannibal)....

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 December 1906

• Description: In 1847 we were living in a large white house....

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 December 1906

• Description: One evening we dined with the C.'s....

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 December 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 December 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 December 1906

• Description: As regards the coming American monarchy....

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 December 1906

• Description: As I have already remarked, "Old Times on the Mississippi"....

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 December 1906

• Description: I went to Washington, a fortnight ago....

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 December 1906

• Description: That was an odd mission of mine....

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 December 1906

• Description: Six months ago, when I was recalling early days....

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 December 1906

• Description: I wish to insert here some pages....

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 December 1906

• Description: I lately received a letter from England....

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 December 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 December 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 December 1906

• Description: From Susy's Biography....

Autobiographical Dictation 6 January 1907

• Description: That reminds me....

Autobiographical Dictation 9 January 1907

• Description: There has been an incident....

Autobiographical Dictation 15 January 1907

• Description: The human race was always interesting....

Autobiographical Dictation 17 January 1907

• Description: Helen Keller dined with us yesterday evening....

Autobiographical Dictation 22 January 1907

• Description: In an earlier chapter I inserted....

Autobiographical Dictation 23 January 1907

• Description: The proverb says that Providence protects children....

Autobiographical Dictation 28 January 1907

• Description: In the middle of the afternoon, day before yesterday....

Autobiographical Dictation 29 January 1907

• Description: Those hand readings were made two years ago....

Autobiographical Dictation 30 January 1907

• Description: The political and commercial morals of the United States....

Autobiographical Dictation 1 February 1907

• Description: Last summer I dictated some remarks....

Autobiographical Dictation 4 February 1907

• Description: In these days things are happening which bring Bret Harte....

Autobiographical Dictation 11 February 1907

• Description: Two months ago (December 6) I was dictating....

Autobiographical Dictation 12 February 1907

• Description: Those stars indicate the long chapter....

Autobiographical Dictation 19 February 1907

• Description: About thirty-five years ago (1872)....

Autobiographical Dictation 25 February 1907

• Description: As I have said once or twice already....

Autobiographical Dictation 26 February 1907

• Description: Last week I started a club....

Autobiographical Dictation 27 February 1907

• Description: I am not a history maker....

Autobiographical Dictation 28 February 1907

• Description: The most lurid cause celebre of modern ages....

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 March 1907

• Description: Isabella Beecher Hooker is dead. I first made her acquaintance about forty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 March 1907

• Description: That cunning rascal’s curious history brings back to me, out of the mouldy past...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 March 1907

• Description: Through Mr. Paine I learn that Jim Gillis is dead. He died aged seventy-seven...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 March 1907

• Description: I wish to go on for a while cataloguing the things which have happened to me recently...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 March 1907

• Description: It was my intention to continue and complete the list of important-unimportant happenings...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 April 1907

• Description: I note with satisfaction that the last survivor of the battle of Navarino is dead...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 April 1907

• Description: The 'Wapping Alice' story. | At the banquet in honor of Ambassador Tower...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 April 1907

• Description: I am aware that yesterday's dictation reads like a farcical fairy-tale and looks like an invention...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 April 1907

• Description: Many months ago I extracted a chapter from the old manuscript-book...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 April 1907

• Description: In the morning paper I have once more come across that phrase...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 May 1907

• Description: It seems a long time since I have done any dictating; and it really is a long time...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 May 1907

• Description: A cablegram arrived from England three weeks ago inviting me to come to Oxford...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 May 1907

• Description: Tuxedo Park is unique—in America. It is what may be called the American San Marino...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 May 1907

• Description: Through Mr. Paine I learn that Jim Gillis is dead. He died aged seventy-seven...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 May 1907

• Description: A letter has arrived from a lawyer resident in Sonora, California, which gratifies me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 May 1907

• Description: I think it is not wise for an emperor, or a king, or a president, to come down into the boxing-ring...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 July 1907

• Description: I think it is not wise for an emperor, or a king, or a president, to come down...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 July 1907

• Description: At the railway station in London we had a moment's glimpse...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 July 1907

• Description: The fine verses quoted in that account are from the hand of Owen Seaman...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 July 1907

• Description: There was to be a dinner of high dignity that night at one of the colleges...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 August 1907

• Description: I take this paragraph from an editorial in this morning's World...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 August 1907

• Description: I met Marie Corelli at a small dinner party in Germany fifteen years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 August 1907

• Description: Ashcroft's next note says...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 August 1907

• Description: Well, to resume from Ashcroft's notes...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 August 1907

• Description: Ashcroft's note...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 August 1907

• Description: It was lively and interesting, was Mr. Henniker Heaton's luncheon...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 August 1907

• Description: Ashcroft's note...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 August 1907

• Description: I was not able to go to Whitelaw Reid's afternoon reception of the American contingent...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 August 1907

• Description: As a pendant to my closing remark of yesterday I wish to insert here, from this morning's paper...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 August 1907

• Description: The Fourth of July dinner that night was devoured in the great banqueting hall...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 August 1907

• Description: Ashcroft's notes...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 August 1907

• Description: A few days earlier Punch had contained a cartoon in which that illustrious old gentleman...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 September 1907

• Description: I shall continue the narrative of my adventures in England pretty soon...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 September 1907

• Description: Ashcroft's note...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 September 1907

• Description: The Holy Grail was in the house. A proper spirit of reverence forbade its exhibition...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 September 1907

• Description: The King's garden party at Windsor...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 September 1907

• Description: I will resume the English excursion presently, but not yet...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 October 1907

• Description: Let us get back to England...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 October 1907

• Description: My industries in England began at Tilbury, with the reporters at eight in the morning...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 October 1907

• Description: In some ways, I was always honest; even from my earliest years...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 October 1907

• Description: Robert Porter arrived from England and Oxford a week or ten days ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 October 1907

• Description: It pains me to note how this world is given to slander...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 October 1907

• Description: I must get that stupendous fancy out of my head...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 October 1907

• Description: Latterly, the newspapers are full of the impending marriage of Gladys...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 October 1907

• Description: I believe I have now arrived at that occasion in Vienna already spoken of...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 October 1907

• Description: Alas, the President has got the cow after all! If it was a cow...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 October 1907

• Description: Mr. O called, and left the regards of Baron Tauchnitz...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 November 1907

• Description: It is like a breath of fresh air in the Black Hole of Calcutta...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 December 1907

• Description: Yesterday I had a message for Andrew Carnegie...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 December 1907

• Description: I have been leading a quiet and wholesome life now...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 December 1907

• Description: The Carnegie Institute will be Carnegie's best monument...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 January 1908

• Description: Two or three weeks ago Elinor Glyn called on me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 February 1908

• Description: Apparently we do not need to go abroad to find quaint and delightful samples...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 February 1908

• Description: My first day in Bermuda paid a dividend...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 February 1908

• Description: One's first contact with a fresh, new, thrilling novelty is for him a memorable event...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 February 1908

• Description: I sail for Bermuda three days hence, but not for my health...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 April 1908

• Description: Miss Lyon and the Rogerses and I arrived back from Bermuda three days ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 April 1908

• Description: One day at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, Mrs. Clemens and I were mourning for our lost little ones...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 April 1908

• Description: District-Attorney Jerome has been telling some straight truths at a banquet the other night...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 April 1908

• Description: Lord Dundreary has been revived, after an age-long silence...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 April 1908

• Description: Last night I read in the Atlantic a passage from one of Rev. Dr. Van Dyke's books...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 May 1908

• Description: Last night I read in the Atlantic a passage from one of Rev. Dr. Van Dyke's books...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 May 1908

• Description: The Harpers have now been my publishers four years and a half...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 June 1908

• Description: I clip the following from the newspapers...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 June 1908

• Description: We entered into occupation of this new house eight days ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 July 1908

• Description: To-morrow is Hell-fire Day, that English holiday which we have celebrated, every Fourth of July...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 July 1908

• Description: Joel Chandler Harris is dead...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 July 1908

• Description: But not now—after a few minutes...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 July 1908

• Description: To resume about the Aldrich Memorial affair...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 July 1908

• Description: Governor Guild, talking at ease, made a graceful and animated speech...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 July 1908

• Description: A few days ago I wrote John Howells some strong and spontaneous praises...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 July 1908

• Description: The principal editorial comment in Collier's Weekly...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 July and 12 September 1908

• Description: Thirty-five years ago in a letter to my wife ostensibly...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 August 1908

• Description: Early in the evening of the first day of this month...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 October 1908

• Description: I called this house Innocence at Home but my daughter Clara has abolished that name...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 October 1908

• Description: Paragraph clipped from the news columns a day or two ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 November 1908

• Description: Several times in this Autobiography I have spoken of an unpublished philosophy of mine...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 November 1908

• Description: Meantime a letter has arrived which continues this subject...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 November 1908

• Description: The following telegram appeared in the newspapers yesterday morning...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 November 1908

• Description: Lord Northcliffe came up with Colonel Harvey to talk over my new copyright scheme...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 December 1908

• Description: Speaking of burglars, here's a curious coincidence...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 December 1908

• Description: It always distresses me when I do something sly and furtive...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 December 1908

• Description: I passed my seventy-third birthday a couple of weeks ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 December 1908

• Description: The mails bring me many interesting letters, and now and then a remarkable one...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 December 1908

• Description: Ten days ago Robert Collier wrote me that he had bought a baby elephant...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 January 1909

• Description: I saw only three references to that curious Presidential performance...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 January 1909

• Description: From away back towards the very beginning of the Shakspeare-Bacon controversy...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 March 1909

• Description: Miss Lyon came into the billiard room an hour ago, where I was busying myself...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 March 1909

• Description: About two months ago I was illuminating this Autobiography with some notions of mine...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 April 1909

• Description: For the second time I have heard Clara sing in public...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 October 1909

• Description: Little by little the evidence comes out as to Miss Lyon's drinking habits...

Closing Words of My Autobiography

• Description: Jean is dead...