Volume 1

Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

  • Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Introduction

  • Description: Editorial introduction to the three-volume Mark Twain Project edition

Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905

  • Description: Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905

The Tennessee Land

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Early years in Florida, Missouri

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

The Grant Dictations

  • Description: 'The Chicago G.A.R. Festival, [A Call with W. D. Howells on General Grant], Grant and the Chinese, Gerhardt, About General Grant's Memoirs, [The Rev. Dr. Newman]'

The Machine Episode

  • Description: (1890, 1893-94) Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Travel-Scraps I

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Four Sketches about Vienna

  • Description: '[Beauties of the German Language], [Comment on Tautology and Grammar], [A Group of Servants], [A Viennese Procession]'

My Debut as a Literary Person

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Horace Greeley

  • Description: (1898-1899) Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Lecture-Times

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Ralph Keeler

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Scraps from My Autobiography (From Chapter IX)

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Scraps from My Autobiography (Private History of a Manuscript That Came to Grief)

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Reflections on a Letter and a Book

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Something about Doctors

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Henry H Rogers

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Anecdote of Jean

  • Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Early Attempts

  • Description: An Early Attempt, My Autobiography, The Latest Attempt, The Final (and Right) Plan, Preface, The Florentine Dictations

An Early Attempt

  • Description: Prefatory Materials

My Autobiography (Random Extracts from It)

  • Description: Prefatory Materials

Second Preface, in Three Parts

  • Description: Prefatory Materials

The Florentine Dictations

  • Description: [John Hay], Notes on "Innocents Abroad", [Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Bailey Aldrich], [Villa di Quarto]

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...

Appendixes, Volume 1

  • Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Speech at the Seventieth Birthday Dinner, ...Souvenir of the Event, Speech at the Players, Previous Publication

Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

  • Description: Back matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Guide to the Textual Apparatus

  • Description: Statement of editorial policy for the Autobiography

Photographs from Volume 1

  • Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1