Autobiography of mark twain, volume 1 mark twain

[...]... January 7 February 8 March 10 January 8 February 9 March 11 January 9 February 12 March 12 January 12 February 14 March 13 January 13 February 15 March 15 January 14 February 16 March 16 January 15 February 20 March 17 January 16 February 21 March 18 January 20 February 22 March 19 January 21 February 23 March 23 January 22 February 26 March 24 January 23 February 27 March 1 February 26 February 28... Speech at The Players, 3 January 19 06 Previous Publication Note on the Text Word Division in This Volume References Index Photographs LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS AND DICTATIONS 18 70 18 77 18 85 18 90, 18 93–94 18 97 18 98 18 98 18 98–99 18 98–99 18 98–99 19 00 19 00 19 03 19 03 19 04 19 05 Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 18 70 19 05 [The Tennessee Land] [Early Years in Florida, Missouri] The Grant Dictations The Chicago... XVII Written in 18 77 Describes Clemens’s home until aged 4, when the family moved to Hannibal Written in 18 97–98 “My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It].” Clemens aged 7 to 12 Written in 19 03 “Scraps from My Autobiography From Chapter IV.” Transcribed in ADs, 1 and 2 Dec 19 06 Clemens aged 14 Written in 19 00 “Scraps from My Autobiography From Chapter IX.” Clemens aged 14 , 38, and 61 Not found, but...The publication of this volume has been made possible by a gift to the University of California Press Foundation by WILSON GARDNER COMBS FRANK MARION GIFFORD COMBS in honor of WILSON GIFFORD COMBS BA 19 35, MA 19 50, University of California, Berkeley MARYANNA GARDNER COMBS MSW 19 51, University of California, Berkeley University of California Press gratefully acknowledges the support of John G Davies... in the shape and form of an autobiography Mark Twain s (Burlesque) Autobiography was written in late 18 70 and published in pamphlet form in March 18 71 Mark Twain tells us that his own parents were “neither very poor nor conspicuously honest,” and that almost all of his ancestors were born to be hanged—and for the most part were hanged An even briefer “burlesque” called simply “An Autobiography appeared... “Random Extracts from It” (which Clemens himself enclosed in brackets), bracketed titles have been editorially supplied for works that Clemens left untitled AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN 19 06 18 97–98 19 06 19 06 19 06 19 04 19 06 An Early Attempt My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It] The Latest Attempt The Final (and Right) Plan Preface As from the Grave The Florentine Dictations [John Hay] Notes on... other forms of support from our home institution We thank the staff of the University Library and The Bancroft Library at Berkeley, especially Thomas C Leonard, University Librarian; Charles Faulhaber, the James D Hart Director of The Bancroft Library; and Peter E Hanff, its Deputy Director, all of whom serve on the Board of Directors of the Mark Twain Project To them and to the other members of the Board—Jo... him a lifelong target of Mark Twain s ridicule But he thought Cellini’s autobiography the “most entertaining of books,” and he admired the daring frankness of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Giovanni Giacomo Casanova’s Mémoires, as well as Samuel Pepys’s Diary, which Paine said was the book Clemens “read and quoted most. 14 In 18 71 he proposed writing “an Autobiography of Old Parr, the gentleman... lived to be 15 3 years old,” but apparently he never did so 15 In the summer of 18 76 he wrote four hundred pages of a work he was then calling “Huck Finn’s Autobiography. ” And in March 18 77, he told Howells he was writing such a work about his own older brother: “I began Orion’s autobiography yesterday & am charmed with the work I have started him at 18 , printer’s apprentice, soft & sappy, full of fine... INTRODUCTION Between 18 70 and 19 05 Mark Twain (Samuel L Clemens) tried repeatedly, and at long intervals, to write (or dictate) his autobiography, always shelving the manuscript before he had made much progress By 19 05 he had accumulated some thirty or forty of these false starts—manuscripts that were essentially experiments, drafts of episodes and chapters; many of these have survived in the Mark Twain Papers . Diane. VII. Bancroft Library. VIII. Title. PS13 31. A2 2 010 818 ’.4’0924—dc22 2009047700 Manufactured in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is. and to the Autobiography of Mark Twain and all other texts by Mark Twain in copyright to the Mark Twain Foundation. All texts by Mark Twain in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 have been. (The Mark Twain Papers) “A publication of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 97 8-0 -5 2 0-2 6 719 -0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Twain, Mark,