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Apparatus Notes
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ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations and location symbols have been used in annotations.

AD      Autobiographical Dictation
Berg      Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
CWB      Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
MS      Manuscript
MTP      Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Yale      Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

published works cited

BAL       Jacob Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957), vol. 2
BMT2       Merle Johnson, A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935)
IE       Albert E. Stone, The Innocent Eye (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961)
MT&HF       Walter Blair, Mark Twain & Huck Finn (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960)
MTB       Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 vols. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912) Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.
MTBus       Mark Twain, Business Man, ed. Samuel C. Webster (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1946)
MTCH       Mark Twain: The Critical Heritage, ed. Frederick Anderson (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971)
MTE       Mark Twain in Eruption, ed. Bernard DeVoto (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940)
MTHL       Mark Twain-Howells Letters, ed. Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960)
MTL       Mark Twain's Letters, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine, 2 vols. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1917)
MTLP       Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, ed. Hamlin Hill (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967)
MTMF       Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks, ed. Dixon Wecter (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library Publications, 1949)
NF       Kenneth R. Andrews, Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950)
N&J2       Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II (1877–1883), ed. Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1975)