Ⓐ The . . . Land.] The title, engraved by Daniel Beard for the first American edition, occupies a separate page of the manuscript with the penciled instruction “(This title on a blank page by itself.)” Above it, canceled, is “A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King.” At the foot of the page Mark Twain wrote in ink and canceled in pencil “(See my notebook about his return to England & his sweetheart.)” Mark Twain entered a series of plot notes in his notebook just before he began to write A Connecticut Yankee. They include the title “The Lost Land” and the idea for the palimpsest, and continue: “He mourns his lost land—has come to England & revisited it, but it is all changed & become old, so old!—& it was so fresh & new, so virgin before . . .. He is also grieving to see his sweetheart, so suddenly lost to him” ( N&J3 , p. 216).