Mark Twain - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

The Mark Twain Project is an editorial andpublishing program of The Bancroft Library,working since 1967 to create a comprehensivecritical edition of everything Mark Twain wrote.

This volume is the second one in that edition tobe published simultaneously in print and as anelectronic text at http://www.marktwainproject.org.The textual commentaries for all Mark Twaintexts in this volume are published only there.

Frontispiece: Photograph by Underwood and Underwood, 1907, Tuxedo Park, New York.

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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 Copyright 2013, 2001 by the Mark Twain Foundation. All Rights Reserved.Transcription, reconstruction, and creation of the texts, introduction, notes, and appendixes Copyright 2013 byThe Regents of the University of California. The Mark Twain Foundation expressly reserves to itself, its successors andassigns, all dramatization rights in every medium, including without limitation stage, radio, television, motion picture,and public reading rights, in and to the Autobiography of Mark Twain and all other texts by Mark Twain in copyrightto the Mark Twain Foundation.

All texts by Mark Twain in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 have been published previously, by permissionof the Mark Twain Foundation, in the Mark Twain Projects Microfilm Edition of Mark Twains Literary ManuscriptsAvailable in the Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley: The BancroftLibrary, 2001), and some texts have been published previously in one or more of the following: Albert Bigelow Paine,editor, Mark Twains Autobiography (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924); Bernard DeVoto, editor, Mark Twainin Eruption (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940); Charles Neider, editor, The Autobiography of Mark Twain,Including Chapters Now Published for the First Time (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959). Unless otherwise noted,all illustrations are reproduced from original documents in the Mark Twain Papers of The Bancroft Library, Universityof California, Berkeley.

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Editorial work for this volume has been supportedby a generous gift to the Mark Twain Project ofThe Bancroft Library from the

KORET FOUNDATION

and by matching and outright grants from the

NATIONAL ENDOWMENTFOR THE HUMANITIES,an independent federal agency.

Without that support, this volume could nothave been produced.

The Mark Twain Project at the University of California,Berkeley, gratefully acknowledges generous support from thefollowing, for editorial work on the Autobiography of MarkTwain and for the acquisition of important new documents:

The University of California, Berkeley, Class of 1958
Members of the Mark Twain Luncheon Club
The Barkley Fund
Phyllis R. Bogue
The Mark Twain Foundation
Robert and Beverly Middlekauff
Peter K. Oppenheim

The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at theHartford Foundation for Public Giving

The House of Bernstein, Inc.
Helen Kennedy Cahill
Kimo Campbell
Lawrence E. Crooks
Mrs. Henry Daggett
Les and Mary De Wall
The Renee B. Fisher Foundation
Ann and David Flinn
Peter B. and Robin Frazier
Virginia Robinson Furth
Stephen B. Herrick
The Hofmann Foundation
Don and Bitsy Kosovac
Watson M. and Sita Laetsch
Edward H. Peterson
Roger and Jeane Samuelsen

The Benjamin and Susan Shapell Foundation
Janet and Alan Stanford
Montague M. Upshaw
Jeanne and Leonard Ware
Sheila M. Wishek
Patricia Wright, in memory of Timothy J. Fitzgerald
Peter and Midge Zischke

and

The thousands of individual donors over the past fifty yearswho have helped sustain the ongoing workof the Mark Twain Project.

The University of California Pressgratefully acknowledges the support of

The Mark Twain Foundation

The Sydney Stern Memorial Trust

John G. Davies

and the Humanities Endowment Fundof the UC Press Foundation