Contents
Introduction
1. “Explanation of a Mysterious Sentence,” San Francisco Examiner, February 7, 1866
2. “The Moral Phenomenon,” Californian, August 25, 1866
3. “‘Mark Twain’ Explains the Mexican Correspondence,” San Francisco Alta California, December 10, 1866
4. “Female Suffrage / Views of Mark Twain,” Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), March 12, 1867
5. “Female Suffrage / A Volley from the Down-Trodden,” Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), March 13, 1867
6. “Female Suffrage,” New York Sunday Mercury, April 7, 1867
7. “Letter from Mark Twain / Cruelty to Strangers,” St. Louis Sunday Republican, March 17, 1867
8. “From Mark Twain / Explanatory,” St. Louis Sunday Republican, March 24, 1867
9. “Information Wanted,” New York Tribune, December 18, 1867
10. “The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation,” New York Tribune, December 27, 1867
11. “The Holy Land Excursion. Did the Pilgrims Keep Sober?” Brooklyn Eagle, December 31, 1867
12. To the Editors of the Washington Morning Chronicle, January 11, 1868
13. “Important to Whom It May Concern,” San Francisco Newsletter and California Advertiser, June 13, 1868
14. “Concerning Gen. Grant’s Intentions,” New York Tribune, December 12, 1868
15. “Back from ‘Yurrup,’” Buffalo Express, December 4, 1869
16. “Mark Twain on Agriculture,” Buffalo Express, April 12, 1870
18. “The Famous Sanitary Flour Sack,” New York Tribune, December 13, 1870
19. “John H. Surratt,” New York Tribune, January 4, 1871
20. “A Substitute for Rulloff,” New York Tribune, May 3, 1871
21. “Mark Twain and His English Editor,” London Spectator, September 21, 1872
22. To the Editor of the Hartford Evening Post, December 6, 1872
23. “Views of Mark Twain / A Characteristic Letter from the Humorist,” New York Tribune, January 6, 1873
24. “The Sandwich Islands / Concluding Views of Mark Twain,” New York Tribune, January 9, 1873
25. “Foster’s Case,” New York Tribune, March 10, 1873
26. “A Horrible Tale / Fearful Calamity in Forest Street,” Hartford Courant, March 31, 1873
27. “Life-Rafts / How the Atlantic’s Passengers Might Have Been Saved,” New York Tribune, April 11, 1873
28. “‘Mark Twain’ to the Editor of ‘The Daily Graphic,’” New York Daily Graphic, April 22, 1873
29. To the Editor of the London Evening Standard, October 9, 1873
30. To the Editor of the London Morning Post, December 11, 1873
31. “American Notes / The Temperance Insurrection,” London Evening Standard, March 26, 1874
32. “Mark Twain’s Banquet,” Hartford Courant, April 14, 1874
33. To the Editor of the Dubuque (Iowa) Herald, April 28, 1874
34. “Those Imperishable Fishers Again,” New York World, May 31, 1874
35. “A Postal Case,” Boston Advertiser, June 23, 1874
36. “Mark Twain and His Cold,” New York Times, October 12, 1874
37. To the Editor of the Hartford Evening Post, November 3, 1874
38. To Jerome B. Stillson, January 19, 1875
39. Hartford Courant, May 20, 1875
41. “Information Wanted,” Hartford Courant, September 29, 1875
42. “‘Information’ from ‘Professor A.B.,’” Hartford Courant, October 25, 1875
43. “Miraculous Disappearance of Niles Street,” Hartford Courant, April 6, 1876
44. “The Niles Street Sufferers,” Hartford Courant, April 7, 1876
45. “The Secret Out!” New York Evening Post, July 25, 1876
46. “Mark Twain on His Muscle / Emulating Macbeth, He Kills Duncan Over Again,” New York World, February 18, 1877
47. “Mark Twain Once More,” New York World, February 25, 1877
48. “A Tramp of the Sea / A Mystery of the Ocean,” Hartford Courant, September 20, 1877
49. To the Editor of the Hartford Courant, February 2, 1879
50. “Mark Twain as a Presidential Candidate,” New York Evening Post, June 9, 1879
51. “From ‘Mark Twain,’” Berkshire County [Pittsfield, Mass.] Eagle, October 16, 1879
52. “Mark Twain on the Postal Regulations,” Hartford Courant, November 25, 1879
53. “Mark Twain and Post Matters,” Hartford Courant, December 9, 1879
54. “Mark Twain on the Philosophy of Shaving,” Hartford Courant, August 19, 1880
55. To the Editors of the River Record, Daily Memphis Avalanche, August 19, 1880
56. “Millions in It,” New York Evening Post, September 16, 1880
57. To the Editor of the Hartford Courant, September 20–24, 1880
58. To the Editor of the New York Evening Post, November 23, 1880
59. To the Editors of Childhood’s Appeal, December 9, 1880
60. Adelaide Observer, October 15, 1881
61. “Mark Twain Explains,” Springfield Republican, December 20, 1881
62. “George W. Cable,” Hartford Courant, March 30, 1883
64. “‘Mark Twain’ on International Copyright,” Musical Record (Boston) 262 (November 1883)
65. “Mark Twain Aggrieved,” New York Times, December 4, 1883
66. “Doctor Taft,” Hartford Courant, July 24, 1884
67. “‘What Ought He to Have Done?’” Christian Union, July 16, 1885
68. “Mark Twain on Pensions,” Washington Post, July 18, 1885
69. “Mark Twain’s Statement,” Albany Journal, July 22, 1885
70. “Mark Twain on the Future National Capital,” New York Sun, July 30, 1885
71. To the Editor of the Hartford Courant, June 6–7, 1886
72. “The Approaching Supreme Disaster,” New York Sun, September 29, 1886
74. “A Letter from Mark Twain,” Pall Mall Gazette (London), February 16, 1889
75. “How to Remove Warts and Tattoo Marks,” New York Sun, April 21, 1889
76. To the Editor of Free Russia: The Organ of the English Friends of Russian Freedom, ca. August 1890
77. “An Appeal against Injudicious Swearing,” New York Sun, November 9, 1890
78. To the Editor of the New York World, December 25, 1890
80. “An American Pirate,” London Daily Chronicle, November 18, 1896
81. To the Editor of the Wiener Bilder, October 17, 1897
83. “Mark Twain’s Answer,” New York Tribune, February 15, 1901
84. To the Editor of the New York Tribune, February 18, 1901
85. “Mark Twain’s ‘Oesophagus,’” Springfield Republican, April 12, 1902
86. “Mark Twain Scores Men Who Don’t Like ‘Huck,’” Denver Post, August 18, 1902
87. “Mark Twain on ‘Huck Finn,’” Omaha World-Herald, August 31, 1902
89. “Amended Obituaries,” Harper’s Weekly, November 15, 1902
90. “A Postscript,” Harper’s Weekly, February 11, 1905
91. “Diogenes and His Lantern,” Harper’s Weekly, August 12, 1905
93. “‘Russian Liberty Has Had Its Last Chance,’ Says Mark Twain,” Boston Globe, August 30, 1905
94. “John Hay and the Ballads,” Harper’s Weekly, October 21, 1905
95. “Overspeeding,” Harper’s Weekly, November 4, 1905
96. “Adieu, ‘Chauffeur’!” Harper’s Weekly, January 13, 1906
98. To the Editor of the World, November 22–26, 1907
99. “The New Planet,” Harper’s Weekly, January 30, 1909
100. “Twain’s Merry Christmas,” New York Times, December 24, 1909
101. New York Evening Journal, March 3, 1910
Notes
Index
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