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36.23 ‘Mysterious Stranger’ ‘Harpers have the 3 opening pages’ Paine's notes.
41.18 ‘fireside ghosts’ written and canceled in ink in top right corner.
43.7 ‘at the end of the quarter’ in faint black ink at bottom.
43.8 ‘1st form of Mys. Stranger abandoned for another form.’ Paine's note.
[begin page 410] 70.21 ‘cat burnt, but the div.idend continues’ in ink in top left corner. ‘more com.ment on cat’ written and canceled in ink in top right corner.
71.7 ‘talks with animals’ in ink in top right corner.
71.27 ‘Memory.’ in ink in top left corner. ‘Traum—dream’ in ink in top right corner.
74.12 ‘He plans rocket.’ in ink in top right corner.
81.12 ‘Satan often draws upon future history.’ in ink in top left corner. ‘Visit an asteroid, and a vast world outside our system.’ in ink in top right corner.
89.12 ‘The com.mission will elect to tackle the cat and ignore the priest for a while.’ in ink in top right corner.
162.11 ‘She snubs Satan?’ written and canceled in faint black ink in top left corner. ‘Tell Peter the news’ written and canceled in faint black ink in top right corner.
51.25–52.11 ‘Boys privately rescue them—2 or 3—and keep track of them for years,—their lifetime is a 12th of ours—they raise families, have funerals, etc, they are invisible to all but the boys—they have tragedies and conflagrations and love passages and murders’ written and canceled in pencil in right margin.
51.36 ‘Scene of terror—mother and child imploring—they and others come and look pleadingly up at the vast giants, and beg.’ written and canceled in pencil following ‘if we needed them.’
51.37–52.11 ‘Now—50 years later?—they are a very numerous, and are two nations, divided by a ridge, and have wars of succession, and famous heroes, and crazy religions, and two languages.’ written and canceled in pencil in left margin.
52.14 ‘Except a group found later’ written in pencil following ‘five hundred poor creatures escaping.’
[begin page 411] 53.4 ‘He will let them see the little people, and understand them—tells them so—and maybe understand the speech of animals.’ written and canceled in pencil following ‘such as people have—Philip Traum.’
175.title ‘ “Mysterious Stranger” in Hannibal’ ‘Probably 1899—’ Paine's note.
189.16 ‘Annie Fleming, niece’ written and canceled in pencil at top.
189.27 ‘Disap’ written and canceled in pencil.
191.4 ‘English—lovely, but native tongue is Cant—look at its reviews and papers.’ in pencil at top.
193.2 ‘baggage’ written in ink at top and canceled in pencil. A reminder to mention Forty-four's lack of baggage.
196.28 ‘Interlineations.’ in ink at top.
200.3 ‘Prohibition Millerite All new ideas were wonderful but the same size—ill balanced.’ in pencil. ‘O had mental perception but no mental proportion’ in top right corner in pencil. O is surely Orion Clemens, who had died on 11 December 1897.
207.17 ‘H. abolitionist not taken seriously or been lynched.’ in ink at top.
214.7 ‘not reared in hell.’ in ink at top.
218.16 ‘blankets fire name’ in ink at top.
219.1 ‘Mys Stranger in Hannibal About 1899’ Paine's note.
220.35 ‘Short-handing the boy's tale Crazy's history and misfortunes and his family and lost boy—Ratcliff.’ This note in pencil follows the broken-off end of MT's MS.
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221.9 ‘1490.’ written and canceled in ink in top right corner. ‘The Mysterious Stranger. Put in (Description of the region from the “Young Satan.”)’ written and canceled in ink at the top of the MS page.
233.34 ‘called Polecat’ in ink at top center.
234.6 ‘Insert others’ in ink in lower left corner.
234.7 ‘knights’ in ink at top.
254.27 ‘dirk, chevron’ in ink at top.
255.5 ‘? 17 from bot of 14’ written and canceled in ink in lower left corner.
259.25 ‘bottle-a'd ratting’ in ink at top.
266.6 ‘I change my “intention” and pray for Doangiv to come.’ in pencil at top left. ‘wineglass.’ in ink at top right corner.
271.1 ‘found 3 grosn’ written and canceled in dark blue ink in top left corner.
312.9 ‘I think I tore up all the MS from page 174 (type) to this 259. SLC’ in blue-black ink at top left. In Paine's hand, ‘Mys stranger’ and ‘Probably 1901–3’.
313.12 ‘Xifixion’ written and canceled in blue-black ink at top left.
330.4 ‘pone, coffee—pipe’ written and canceled in ink at top right.
350.33 ‘chess.’ in ink in top left corner.
353.19 ‘June 20/05 Burned the rest (30,000 words) of this book this morning. Too diffusive.’ in blue-black ink in lower left corner.
[begin page 413] 400.17 ‘Mysterious Stranger’ in ink in top left corner. ‘His Dream-self to appear, a century later.’ in ink in top right corner.
403.16 ‘those poor girls’ in ink in bottom right corner.
403.17 ‘(Conclusion of the book.)’ in ink at top left.
APPENDIX A:
Marginal Notes
Marginal Notes
This list of marginalia includes those of Albert Bigelow Paine and F. A. Duneka as well as Mark Twain, but nothing added later than that has been included. The notes have been printed as written; the color of ink is specified only when it indicates that the note was written later than the manuscript page. Superscript letters and numbers have been lowered to the line. The notes have been keyed into the text approximately where they appear, and the location of the note on the manuscript page has been indicated.
The Chronicle of Young Satan
Manuscript
35.1 ‘used’ Probably Paine's or Clemens's note.36.23 ‘Mysterious Stranger’ ‘Harpers have the 3 opening pages’ Paine's notes.
41.18 ‘fireside ghosts’ written and canceled in ink in top right corner.
43.7 ‘at the end of the quarter’ in faint black ink at bottom.
43.8 ‘1st form of Mys. Stranger abandoned for another form.’ Paine's note.
[begin page 410] 70.21 ‘cat burnt, but the div.idend continues’ in ink in top left corner. ‘more com.ment on cat’ written and canceled in ink in top right corner.
71.7 ‘talks with animals’ in ink in top right corner.
71.27 ‘Memory.’ in ink in top left corner. ‘Traum—dream’ in ink in top right corner.
74.12 ‘He plans rocket.’ in ink in top right corner.
81.12 ‘Satan often draws upon future history.’ in ink in top left corner. ‘Visit an asteroid, and a vast world outside our system.’ in ink in top right corner.
89.12 ‘The com.mission will elect to tackle the cat and ignore the priest for a while.’ in ink in top right corner.
162.11 ‘She snubs Satan?’ written and canceled in faint black ink in top left corner. ‘Tell Peter the news’ written and canceled in faint black ink in top right corner.
Typescript
43.8 ‘Duplicate of ms in safe’ Paine's note.51.25–52.11 ‘Boys privately rescue them—2 or 3—and keep track of them for years,—their lifetime is a 12th of ours—they raise families, have funerals, etc, they are invisible to all but the boys—they have tragedies and conflagrations and love passages and murders’ written and canceled in pencil in right margin.
51.36 ‘Scene of terror—mother and child imploring—they and others come and look pleadingly up at the vast giants, and beg.’ written and canceled in pencil following ‘if we needed them.’
51.37–52.11 ‘Now—50 years later?—they are a very numerous, and are two nations, divided by a ridge, and have wars of succession, and famous heroes, and crazy religions, and two languages.’ written and canceled in pencil in left margin.
52.14 ‘Except a group found later’ written in pencil following ‘five hundred poor creatures escaping.’
[begin page 411] 53.4 ‘He will let them see the little people, and understand them—tells them so—and maybe understand the speech of animals.’ written and canceled in pencil following ‘such as people have—Philip Traum.’
Schoolhouse Hill
Manuscript
175.title ‘Schoolhouse Hill’ See “Textual Notes”175.title ‘ “Mysterious Stranger” in Hannibal’ ‘Probably 1899—’ Paine's note.
189.16 ‘Annie Fleming, niece’ written and canceled in pencil at top.
189.27 ‘Disap’ written and canceled in pencil.
191.4 ‘English—lovely, but native tongue is Cant—look at its reviews and papers.’ in pencil at top.
193.2 ‘baggage’ written in ink at top and canceled in pencil. A reminder to mention Forty-four's lack of baggage.
196.28 ‘Interlineations.’ in ink at top.
200.3 ‘Prohibition Millerite All new ideas were wonderful but the same size—ill balanced.’ in pencil. ‘O had mental perception but no mental proportion’ in top right corner in pencil. O is surely Orion Clemens, who had died on 11 December 1897.
207.17 ‘H. abolitionist not taken seriously or been lynched.’ in ink at top.
214.7 ‘not reared in hell.’ in ink at top.
218.16 ‘blankets fire name’ in ink at top.
219.1 ‘Mys Stranger in Hannibal About 1899’ Paine's note.
220.35 ‘Short-handing the boy's tale Crazy's history and misfortunes and his family and lost boy—Ratcliff.’ This note in pencil follows the broken-off end of MT's MS.
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No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
Manuscript
221.1 ‘2nd form of Mysterious Stranger not to be used in any way A. B. P.’ Paine's note, written on a separate MS page.221.9 ‘1490.’ written and canceled in ink in top right corner. ‘The Mysterious Stranger. Put in (Description of the region from the “Young Satan.”)’ written and canceled in ink at the top of the MS page.
233.34 ‘called Polecat’ in ink at top center.
234.6 ‘Insert others’ in ink in lower left corner.
234.7 ‘knights’ in ink at top.
254.27 ‘dirk, chevron’ in ink at top.
255.5 ‘? 17 from bot of 14’ written and canceled in ink in lower left corner.
259.25 ‘bottle-a'd ratting’ in ink at top.
266.6 ‘I change my “intention” and pray for Doangiv to come.’ in pencil at top left. ‘wineglass.’ in ink at top right corner.
271.1 ‘found 3 grosn’ written and canceled in dark blue ink in top left corner.
312.9 ‘I think I tore up all the MS from page 174 (type) to this 259. SLC’ in blue-black ink at top left. In Paine's hand, ‘Mys stranger’ and ‘Probably 1901–3’.
313.12 ‘Xifixion’ written and canceled in blue-black ink at top left.
330.4 ‘pone, coffee—pipe’ written and canceled in ink at top right.
350.33 ‘chess.’ in ink in top left corner.
353.19 ‘June 20/05 Burned the rest (30,000 words) of this book this morning. Too diffusive.’ in blue-black ink in lower left corner.
[begin page 413] 400.17 ‘Mysterious Stranger’ in ink in top left corner. ‘His Dream-self to appear, a century later.’ in ink in top right corner.
403.16 ‘those poor girls’ in ink in bottom right corner.
403.17 ‘(Conclusion of the book.)’ in ink at top left.
Typescript
221.1 ‘One form of Mysterious Stranger. First pages missing Should be destroyed’ Paine's note.