Volume 3
Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
- Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
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...
The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript Page
- Description: Transcription of the Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript and the editorial introduction to the transcription
Appendixes, Volume 3
- Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Clemens's Working Notes for "The Ashcroft-Lyon MS," 1873 Notes, 1899 Notes, Proposition for a Postal Check, Ashcroft-Lyon Chronology, Ashcroft to Stanchfield, Previous Publication
Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
- Description: Back matter (Note on the Text, Word Division, References, Index) published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
Guide to the Textual Apparatus
- Description: Statement of editorial policy for the Autobiography
Photographs from Volume 3
- Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3