1864

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19–20 January 1864

Winters' New House

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 February 1864

An Excellent School

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 February 1864

Those Blasted Children

  • Description: New York Sunday Mercury, 21 February 1864

Frightful Accident to Dan De Quille

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 20 April 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Nevada City [CA] Gazette, San Francisco Golden Era, Unionville [NV] Humboldt Register)

[Dan Reassembled]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28–30 April 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the MTB)

Washoe.—“Information Wanted”

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1–15 May 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Parting Presentation

  • Description: San Francisco Alta California, 13 June 1864

“Mark Twain” in the Metropolis

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17–23 June 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. Jones

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 26 June 1864

Early Rising, As Regards Excursions to the Cliff House

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 3 July 1864

Original Novelette

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 4 July 1864

What a Sky-Rocket Did

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 12 August 1864

[Sarrozay Letter from “the Unreliable”]

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 16–22 August 1864

The New Chinese Temple

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 19 August 1864

The Chinese Temple

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 21 August 1864

The New Chinese Temple

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 23 August 1864

Supernatural Impudence

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 24 August 1864

Inexplicable News from San José

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 23 August 1864

How to Cure Him of It

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 27 August 1864

Due Warning

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 18 September 1864

The Mysterious Chinaman

  • Description: Manuscript facsimile, October 1864–mid-1865

A Notable Conundrum

  • Description: The Californian, 1 October 1864

Concerning the Answer to That Conundrum

  • Description: The Californian, 8 October 1864

Still Further Concerning That Conundrum

  • Description: The Californian, 15 October 1864

Whereas

  • Description: The Californian, 22 October 1864

A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood

  • Description: The Californian, 29 October 1864

Daniel in the Lion's Den—and Out Again All Right

  • Description: The Californian, 5 November 1864

The Killing of Julius Cæsar “Localized”

  • Description: The Californian, 12 November 1864

A Full and Reliable Account of the Extraordinary Meteoric Shower of Last Saturday Night

  • Description: The Californian, 19 November 1864

Lucretia Smith's Soldier

  • Description: The Californian, 3 December 1864