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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T. Goodman, and other old friends of Mark Twain: I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to you who have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to their making. First, I want to confess how I have envied you your association with Mark Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time ago." Next, I want to express my wonder at your willingness to give me so unstintedly from your precious letters and memories, when it is in the nature of man to hoard such treasures, for himself and for those who follow him. And, lastly, I want to tell you that I do not envy you so much, any more, for in these chapters, one after another, through your grace, I have gone gipsying with you all. Neither do I wonder now, for I have come to know that out of your love for him grew that greater unselfishness (or divine selfishness, as he himself might have termed it), and that nothing short of the fullest you could do for his memory would have contented your hearts. My gratitude is measureless; and it is world-wide, for there is no land so distant that it does not contain some one who has eagerly contributed to the story. Only, I seem so poorly able to put my thanks into words. Albert Bigelow Paine.
Part I - Prefatory Note Ancestors The Fortunes Of John And Jane Clemens A Humble Birthplace Beginning A Long Journey The Way Of Fortune A New Home The Little Town Of Hannibal The Farm School-Days Early Vicissitude And Sorrow Days Of Education Tom Sawyer`s Band The Gentler Side The Passing Of John Clemens A Young Ben Franklin The Turning-Point The Hannibal "Journal" The Beginning Of A Literary Life In The Footsteps Of Franklin Keokuk Days Scotchman Named Macfarlane The Old Call Of The River The Supreme Science The River Curriculum Love-Making And Adventure The Tragedy Of The "Pennsylvania" The Pilot Piloting And Prophecy The End Of Piloting The Soldier Over The Hills And Far Away The Pioneer The Prospector Territorial Characteristics The Miner Last Mining Days The New Estate One Of The "Staff" Philosophy And Poetry Mark Twain The Cream Of Comstock Humor Reportorial Days Artemus Ward Governor Of The "Third House" A Comstock Duel Getting Settled In San Francisco Bohemian Days The Refuge Of The Hills The Jumping Frog Back To The Tumult The Corner-Stone A Commission To The Sandwich Islands Anson Burlingame And The "Hornet" Disaster Part II - The Lecturer Highway Robbery Back To The States Old Friends And New Plans A New Book And A Lecture The First Book The Innocents At Sea The Innocents Abroad The Return Of The Pilgrims In Washington--A Publishing Proposition Olivia Langdon A Contract With Elisha Bliss, Jr. Back To San Francisco A Visit To Elmira The Rev. "Joe" Twichell A Lecture Tour Innocents At Home--And "The Innocents Abroad" The Great Book Of Travel The Purchase Of A Paper The First Meeting With Howells The Wedding-Day As To Destiny On The Buffalo "Express" The "Galaxy" The Primrose Path The Old Human Story Literary Projects Some Further Literary Matters The Writing Of "Roughing It" Lecturing Days Roughing It A Birth, A Death, And A Voyage England The Book That Was Never Written The Gilded Age" Planning A New Home A Long English Holiday A London Lecture Further London Lecture Triumphs The Real Colonel Sellers-Golden Days Beginning "Tom Sawyer" An "Atlantic" Story And A Play The New Home The Walk To Boston Old Times On The Mississippi A Typewriter, And A Joke On Aldrich Raymond, Mental Telegraphy, Etc. Concluding "Tom Sawyer"--Mark Twain`s "Editors" Sketches New And Old" Atlantic Days Mark Twain And His Wife |
