 1. This is not a detailed bibliography, but merely a general list of Mark Twain's literary undertakings, in the order of performance, showing when and usually where the work was done, when and where first published, etc. An excellent Mark Twain bibliography has been compiled by Mr. Merle Johnson, to whom acknowledgments are due for important items. 2. Only a few of the more important speeches are noted. Volumes that are merely collections of tales or articles are not noted. 3. Titles are shortened to those most commonly in use, as Huck Finn or Huck, for the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Names of periodicals are abbreviated. The initials U.E. stand for the Uniform Edition of Mark Twain's works. The chapter number or numbers in the line with the date refers to the place in this work where the items are mentioned. 1851. C. 18 of this work. Edited the Hannibal Journal during the absence of the owner and editor, Orian Clemens, wrote local items for the Hannibal Journal. Berlask of a rival editor in the Hannibal Journal. Wrote two sketches for the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia. To Mary in H. blank, blank, L. period. Hannibal Journal. 1852. 53. C. 18. Jim Wolfe and the Fire. Hannibal Journal. Berlask of a rival editor in the Hannibal Journal. 1853. C. 19. Wrote obituary poems, not published. Wrote first letters, home. 1855. 56. C. chapters 20 and 21. First after dinner speech, delivered at a printer's banquet in Kea Cook, Iowa, letters from Cincinnati, November 16, 1856, signed Snodgrass. Saturday Post, Kea Cook. 1857. C. chapter 21. Letters from Cincinnati, March 16, 1857, signed Snodgrass, Saturday Post, Kea Cook. 1858. Anonymous contributions to the New Orleans Crescent and probably to St. Louis Papers. 1859. C. chapter 27. Also Appendix B. Berlask of Captain Isaiah Sellers. True Delta, New Orleans. May 8th or 9th. End of Appendix X. Part 1, 1851 to 1859. Red by John Greenman. Section 110 of Mark Twain of Biography. Appendixes. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Mark Twain of Biography. By Albert Bigelow Payne. Appendix X. Part 2. Mark Twain's works, published and otherwise, from 1860 to 1869. 1861. C. chapter 33 to 35. Letters Home, published in the Gate City, Kea Cook. 1862. C. chapter 35 to 38. Letters and sketches, signed Josh for the Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City, Nevada. Report of the Lecture of Professor Personal Pronoun. Enterprise. Report of a Fourth of July Oration. Enterprise. The Petrified Man. Enterprise. Local News Reporter for the Enterprise from August. 1863. C. chapters 41 to 43. Also Appendix C. Reported the Nevada Legislature for the Enterprise. First used the name Mark Twain February 2. Advice to the Unreliable Enterprise. Curing a Cold. Enterprise. U.E. Information for the Million. Enterprise. Advice to Good Little Girls. Enterprise. The Dutch Nick Massacre. Enterprise. Many other Enterprise sketches. The Aged Pilot Man. Poem. Roughing It. U.E. 1864. C. chapters 44 to 47. Reported the Nevada Legislature for the Enterprise. Speech as Governor of the Third House. Letters to New York Sunday Mercury. Local reporter on the San Francisco Call. Articles and Sketches for the Golden Era. Articles and Sketches for the Californian. Daily Letters from San Francisco to the Enterprise. Several of the era and California sketches appear in Sketches New and Old. U.E. 1865. C. chapters 49 to 51. Also Appendix E. Notes for the Jumping Frog Story. Angels Camp. February. Sketches, etc., for the Golden Era and Californian. Daily Letter to the Enterprise. The Jumping Frog. San Francisco. Saturday Press. New York. November 18. U.E. 1866. C. chapters 52 to 55. Also Appendix E. Daily Letter to the Enterprise. Sandwich Island Letters to the Sacramento Union. Lecture on the Sandwich Island, San Francisco, October 2. 43 Days in an Open Boat. Harper's Magazine, December. Error in Signature. Made it Mark Swain. 1867. C. chapters 57 to 65. Also Appendix E, F, and G. Letters to Alta California from New York. Jim Wolf and the Cats. New York Sunday Mercury. The Jumping Frog. Book. Published by Charles Henry Webb. May 1. U.E. Lectured at Cooper Union. May 66. Letters to Alta California and New York Tribune from the Quaker City. Holy Land Excursion. Letter to New York Herald on the Return from the Holy Land. After dinner speech on Women, Washington, began arrangement for the publication of The Innocence Abroad. 1868. C. chapters 66 to 69. Also Appendix E, H, and I. Newspaper Letters, etc., from Washington for New York Citizen, Tribune, Herald, and other papers and periodicals. Preparing Quaker City Letters, in Washington and San Francisco, for book publication. Captain Wakeman's Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, San Francisco. Published Harper's Magazine, December 1907 to January 1908. Also Book, Harper's. Lectured in California and Nevada on the Holy Land, July 2. SCAT. Anonymous article on T. K. Beecher, Elmira. Published in local paper. Lecture Tour. Season. 1868. 1869. 1869. C. chapters 70 to 73. The Innocence Abroad, Book, American Publishing Company, July 20, UE. Bought one-third ownership in the Buffalo Express. Contributed editorials, sketches, etc., to the Express. Contributed sketches to Packard's Monthly, Woods Magazine, etc. Lecture Tour. Season. 1869 to 1870. End of Appendix X. Part 2. Mark Twain's Works from 1860 to 1869. Red by John Greenman. Section 111 of Mark Twain a Biography. Appendixes. Mark Twain a Biography by Albert Bigelow Payne. Appendix X. Part 3. Mark Twain's Works from 1870 to 1879. 1870. C. chapters 74 to 80. Also Appendix J. Contributed various matter to Buffalo Express. Contributed various matter under general head of Memoranda to Galaxy Magazine, May to April 71. Roughing it began in September, Buffalo. Shem's Diary, Buffalo. Unfinished. God. Ancient and Modern. Unpublished. 1871. C. chapters 81 and 82. Also Appendix K. Memoranda continued in Galaxy to April. Autobiography. And First Romance. The first romance had appeared in the Express in 1870. Later included in Sketches. Booklet. Sheldon and Company. U.E. Roughing it. Finished. Quarry Farm. Ruloff Letter. Tribune. Wrote several Sketches and Lectures. Quarry Farm. Western Play. Unfinished. Lecture Tour. Season. 1871. 1872. C. chapters 83 to 87. Also Appendix L. Roughing it. Book. American Publishing Company. February. U.E. The Mark Twain's Scrap Book. Invented. Saberook, Connecticut. Tom Sawyer begun as a play. Saberook, Connecticut. A few unimportant Sketches published in Practical Jokes, etc. Began a book on England, London. 1873. C. chapters 83 to 92. Letters on the Sandwich Islands. Tribune. January 3 and 6. The Gilded Age. With C. D. Warner. Book. American Publishing Company. December. U.E. The License of the Press. Paper for the Monday Evening Club. Lectured in London October 18th and Season 1873-74. 1874. C. chapters 93 to 98. Also Appendix M. Tom Sawyer continued in the New Study at Quarry Farm. A True Story. Quarry Farm. Atlantic. November. U.E. Fables. Quarry Farm. U.E. Colonel Sellers. Play. Quarry Farm. Performed by John T. Raymond. Undertaker's Love Story. Quarry Farm. Unpublished. Old Times on the Mississippi. Hartford. Atlantic. January to July 1875. Monarchy Letter to Mrs. Clemens. Dated 1935. Boston. 1875. C. chapters 100 to 104. Also Appendix N. Universal Suffrage. Paper for the Monday Evening Club. Sketches New and Old. Book. American Publishing Company. July. U.E. Tom Sawyer concluded. Hartford. The Curious Wrap of Gondur. Atlantic. October. Unsigned. Punch Conductor. Punch. Atlantic. February 1876. U.E. The Second Advent. Unfinished. The Mysterious Chamber. Unfinished. Autobiography of a Damn Fool. Unfinished. Petition for International Copyright. C. chapters 106 to 110. 1876. Performed in The Lone of the Lover, as Peter Spike. Hartford. Carnival of Crime. Paper for the Monday Evening Club. Atlantic. June. U.E. Huck Finn. Begun. Quarry Farm. Canvasser's Story. Quarry Farm. Atlantic. December. U.E. 1601. Quarry Farm. Privately Printed. And Not Edited by Livy. Note by Gutenberg Project. A Sin with Bret Hart. Play. Hartford. Tom Sawyer. Book. American Publishing Company. December. U.E. Speech on the Weather. New England Society. December 22. 1877. C. chapters 112 to 115. Also Appendix O. Loves of Alonzo Fitts. Clarence. Etc. Quarry Farm. Atlantic. Idle Excursion. Quarry Farm. Atlantic. October. November. December. U.E. Simon Wheeler Detective. Play. Quarry Farm. Not Produced. Prince and Popper. Begun. Quarry Farm. Whittier Birthday Speech. Boston. December. 1878. C. chapters 117 to 120. Magnanimous Incident. Hartford. Atlantic. May. U.E. A Tramp Abroad. Heidelberg and Munich. Mental Telegraphy. Harper's Magazine. December. 1891. U.E. Gambetta Duel. Atlantic. February. 1879. Included in Tramp. U.E. Rev in Pitcairn. Atlantic. March. 1879. U.E. Stolen White Elephant. Book. Osgood & Company. 1882. U.E. The three items last named were all originally a part of the Tramp Abroad. 1879. C. chapters 121 to 124. Also chapter 134. And Appendix P. A Tramp Abroad. Continued. Paris. Elmira and Hartford. Adam Monument Scheme. Elmira. Speech on the Babies. Grant Dinner. Chicago. November. Speech on Plagiarism. Holmes Breakfast. Boston. December. And of Appendix X. Part 3. Mark Twain's Works from 1870 to 1879. Read by John Greenman. Section 112 of Mark Twain A Biography. Appendix's. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Mark Twain A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Payne. Appendix X. Part 4. Mark Twain's Works from 1880 to 1889. 1880. C. chapters 125 to 132. Prince and Popper. Concluded. Hartford and Elmira. Huck Finn. Continued. Quarry Farm. Elmira. A Cat Story. Quarry Farm. Unpublished. A Tramp Abroad. Book. American Publishing Company. March 13th. U.E. Edward Mills and Jeffrey Benton. Hartford. Atlantic. August. U.E. Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning. Hartford. Atlantic. September. U.E. 1881. C. chapters 134 to 137. A Curious Experience. Century. November. U.E. A Biography of. Blank. Blank. Unfinished. Prince and Popper. Book. Osgoode and Company. December. Burlesque Etiquette. Unfinished. Included in Letters from the Earth. Gutenberg Project Editor. 1882. C. chapters 140 and 141. Life on the Mississippi. Elmira and Hartford. 1883. C. chapters 142 to 148. Life on the Mississippi. Book. Osgoode and Company. May. U.E. What is Happiness? Paper for the Monday Evening Club. Introduction to Portuguese Conversation Book. Hartford. Huck Finn. Concluded. Quarry Farm. History Game. Quarry Farm. American Claimant with W. D. Howells. Play. Hartford. Produced by A. P. Burbank. Dramatized Tom Sawyer and Prince and Popper. Not produced. 1884. C. chapters 149 to 153. Embarked in Publishing with Charles L. Webster. The Carson Footprints. The San Franciscan. Huck Finn. Book. Charles L. Webster and Company. December. U.E. Platform Readings with George W. Cable. Season. 1884 to 1885. 1885. C. chapters 154 to 157. Contracted for General Grant's Memoirs. A Campaign that Failed. Century. December. U.E. The Universal Tinker. Century. December. Open Letter. Signed. X, Y, Z. Letter on the Government of Children. Christian Union. Kidditchen. Children's Poem. 1886. C. chapters 159 to 161. Also Appendix Q. Introduced Henry M. Stanley. Boston. Connecticut Yankee Begun. Hartford. English as She is Taught. Century. April 1887. Luck. Harper's August 1891. General Grant and Matthew Arnold. Army and Navy Dinner Speech. 1887. C. chapters 162 to 164. Also Appendix R. Meister Schaft. Play. Hartford. Century. January 1888. U.E. Knights of Labor. Essay. Not Published. To the Queen of England. Harper's Magazine. December. U.E. Consistency. Paper for the Monday Evening Club. 1888. C. chapters 165 to 168. Introductory for Unsent Letters. Unpublished. Master of Arts Degree from Yale. Yale Alumni Address. Unpublished. Copyright Controversy with Brander Matthews. Princeton Review. Replies to Matthew Arnold's American Criticisms. Unpublished. Yankee. Continued. Elmyra and Hartford. Introduction of Nye and Riley. Boston. 1889. C. chapters 169 to 173. Also Appendix S. A Majestic Literary Fossil. Harper's Magazine. February 1890. U.E. Huck and Tom Among the Indians. Unfinished. Introduction to Yankee. Not Used. Letter to Elsie Leslie. St. Nicholas. February 1890. Connecticut Yankee. Book. Webster & Company. December. U.E. End of Appendix X. Part 4. Mark Twain's Works. From 1880 to 1889. Read by John Greenman. Section 113 of Mark Twain of Biography. Appendix's. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Mark Twain of Biography. By Albert Bigelow Payne. Appendix X. Part 5. Mark Twain's Works. From 1890 to 1899. 1890. C. chapters 172 to 174. Letter to Andrew Lang. About English Criticism. No important literary matters this year. Mark Twain engaged promoting the page typesetting machine. 1891. C. chapters 175 to 177. American Claimant. Hartford. Syndicated. Also Book. Webster & Company. May 1892. U.E. European Letters to New York Sun. Down the Rhone. Unfinished. Kordnerstrasse. Unpublished. 1892. C. chapters 180 to 182. The German Chicago. Berlin. Sun. U.E. All kinds of ships. At sea. U.E. Tom Sawyer Abroad. Nalheim. St. Nicholas. November 93 to April 94. U.E. Those extraordinary twins. Nalheim. U.E. Puddinhead Wilson. Nalheim and Florence. Century. December 93 to June 94. U.E. $100,000 banknote. Florence. Century. January 93. U.E. 1893. C. chapters 183 to 187. Joan of Arc. Begun. At Via Viviani. Florence. And completed up to the raising of the Siege of Orleans. California's Tale. Florence. Liber Scriptorum. Also Harpers. Adams Diary. Florence. Niagara Book. Also Harpers. Iskimo Maden's Romance. Cosmopolitan. November. U.E. Is he living or is he dead? Cosmopolitan. September. U.E. Travelling with a Reformer. Cosmopolitan. December. U.E. In defense of Harriet Shelley. Florence. N.A. Rev. July 94. U.E. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. This may not have been written until early in 1894. Players New York. N.A. Rev. July 95. U.E. 1894. C. chapters 188 to 190. Joan of Arc. Continued. Etreta. And Paris. What Paul Bourget thinks of us? Etreta. N.A. Rev. January 1895. U.E. Tom Sawyer Abroad. Book. Webster & Company. April. U.E. Putin Had Wilson. Book. American Publishing Company. November. U.E. The Failure of Charles L. Webster & Company. April 18. The Derelict Poem. Paris. Unpublished. 1895. C. chapters 189 and 192. Joan of Arc. Finished. Paris. January 28. Harper's Magazine. April to December. Mental Telegraphy again. Harper's. September. U.E. A little note to Paul Bourget. U.E. Poem to Mrs. Beecher. Elmira. Not published. U.E. Lecture tour Around the World. Begone at Elmira. July 14. Ended. July 31. 1896. C. chapters 191 to 194. Joan of Arc. Book. Harper's. May. U.E. Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories. Book. Harper's. November. Following the Equator. Begone. 23. Ted Moore Square. London. 1897. C. chapters 197 to 199. Following the Equator. Book. American Publishing Company. November. Queens Jubilee. London. Newspaper Syndicate. Book. Privately Printed. James Hammond Trumbull. Century. November. Which was which? London and Switzerland. Unfinished. Tom and Huck. Switzerland. Unfinished. Hellfire Hodgkis. Switzerland. Unfinished. In Memoriam. Poem. Switzerland. Harper's Magazine. U.E. Concordia Club Speech. Vienna. Stirring Times in Austria. Vienna. Harper's Magazine. March. 1898. U.E. 1898. C. chapters 200 to 203. Also Appendix. T. The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again. Vienna. Century. August. U.E. At the Appetite Cure. Vienna. Cosmopolitan. August. U.E. From the London Times. 1904. Vienna. Century. November. U.E. About Play Acting. Vienna. Forum. October. U.E. Concerning the Jews. Vienna. Harper's Magazine. September. 99. U.E. Christian Science and Mrs. Eddie. Vienna. Cosmopolitan. October. U.E. The Man That Corrupted Hadley Berg. Vienna. Harper's Magazine. December. 99. U.E. Autobiographical Chapters. Vienna. Some of them used in the North American Review 1906-1907. What Is Man? Carlton Lake-Geben. Book. Privately Printed. August. 1906. Assassination of an Empress. Carlton Lake-Geben. Unpublished. The Mysterious Stranger. Unfinished. Translations of German Plays. Unproduced. 1899. C. Chapters 204-208. Diplomatic Pay and Clothes. Vienna. Forum. March. U.E. My Literary Debut. Vienna. Century. December. U.E. Christian Science. Vienna. North American Review December 1902. January and February 1903. Translated German Plays. Vienna. Unproduced. Collaborated with Siegmund Schleichinger on Plays. Vienna. Unfinished. Planned a Postal Check Scheme. Vienna. Articles about the Kellgren Treatment. Sanaa, Sweden. Unpublished. St. Joan of Arc. London. Harper's Magazine December 1904. U.E. My First Lie and How I Got Out of It. London. New York World. U.E. Articles on South African War. London. Unpublished. Uniform Edition of Mark Twain's Works. American Publishing Company. End of Appendix X. Part 5. Mark Twain's Works from 1890 to 1899. Read by John Greenman. Section 114 of Mark Twain of Biography. Appendixes. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Mark Twain of Biography by Albert Bigelow Payne. Appendix X. Part 6. Mark Twain's Works from 1900 to 1910. 1900. See chapters 209 to 212. Two Little Tales. London. Century. November 1901. U.E. Spoke on copyright before the House of Lords. Delivered many speeches in London and New York. 1901. See chapters 213 to 218. To The Person Sitting in Darkness. 14 West 10th Street, New York. North American Review. February. To My Missionary Critics. 14 West 10th Street, New York. North American Review. April. Double Barrel Detective Story. Sarinac Lake. The Lair. Harper's Magazine. January and February 1902. Lincoln Birthday Speech. February 11th. Many other speeches. Plan for Casting Vote Party. Riverdale. Unpublished. The Stupendous Procession. Riverdale. Unpublished. Anti-Mortem Obituaries. Harper's Weekly. Received Degree of Doctor of Letters from Yale. 1902. See chapters 219 to 224. Also Appendix U. Does the Race of Man Love a Lord? Riverdale. North American Review. April. U.E. Five Boons of Life. Riverdale. Harper's Weekly. July 5th. U.E. Why Not Abolish It? Riverdale. Harper's Weekly. July 5th. Defense of General Funston. Riverdale. North American Review. May. If I Could Be There? Riverdale. Unpublished. Wrote various articles, unfinished or unpublished. Received Degree of LLD from the University of Missouri. June. The Belated Passport. York Harbor. Harper's Weekly. December 6th. U.E. Was it Heaven or Hell? York Harbor. Harper's Magazine. December. U.E. Poem. Riverdale and York Harbor. Unpublished. 67th Birthday Speech. New York. November 27th. 1903. See chapters 225 to 230. Mrs. Eddy in Error. Riverdale. North American Review. April. Instructions in Art. Riverdale. Metropolitan. April and May. Eddypus. And Other C.S. Articles. Unfinished. A Dog's Tale. Elmira. Harper's Magazine. December. U.E. Italian Without a Master. Florence. Harper's Weekly. January 21st. 1904. U.E. Italian With Grammar. Florence. Harper's Magazine. August. U.E. The $30,000 Bequest. Florence. Harper's Weekly. December 10th. 1904. U.E. 1904. See chapters 230 to 234. Autobiography. Florence. Portions Published. North American Review. And Harper's Weekly. Concerning Copyright. Tiring of Massachusetts. North American Review. January 1905. Zars. Soliloquy. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. North American Review. March 1905. Adams Diary. Book. Harper's. April. 1905. See chapters 234 to 237. Also Appended. V. Leopold Soliloquy. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. Pamphlet. P.R. Warren Company. The War Prayer. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. Unpublished. E.U.'s Diary. Dublin, New Hampshire. Harper's Magazine. December. 3000 years among the microbes. Unfinished. Interpreting the Deity. Dublin, New Hampshire. Unpublished. A Horse's Tale. Dublin, New Hampshire. Harper's Magazine. August and September 1906. 70th Birthday Speech. W. D. Howells. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. Harper's Magazine. July 1906. 1906. See chapters 239 to 251. Autobiography Dictation. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. And Dublin, New Hampshire. Selections. Published. North American Review. 1906 and 1907. Many Speeches. Farewell Lecture. Carnegie Hall. April 19th. What Is Man? Book. Privately Printed. Copyright Speech. Washington. December. 1907. See chapters 256 to 263. Autobiography Dictation. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. And Tuxedo. Degree of Doctor of Literature conferred by Oxford, June 26th. Made many London Speeches. Bagum of Bengal Speech. Liverpool. Christian Science. Book. Harper's. February. U.E. Captain Stormfield, New York. New Hampshire. Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Book. Harper's. 1908. See chapters 264 to 270. Autobiography Dictations. 21 Fifth Avenue, New York. And Reading, Connecticut. Lotus Club and Other Speeches. Aldrich Memorial Speech. 1909. See chapters 276 to 289. Also Appendices N and W. Is Shakespeare Dead? Book. Harper's. April. A Fable. Harper's Magazine. December. Copyright Documents. Unpublished. Addressed to St. Timothy School. Marjorie Fleming. Stormfield. Harper's Bazaar. December. The Turning Point of My Life. Stormfield. Harper's Bazaar. February 1910. Bessie Dialogue. Unpublished. Letters from the Earth. Unfinished. The Death of Gene. Harper's. December 1910. The International Lightning Trust. Unpublished. 1910. See chapter 292. Valentine's to Helen and Others. Not Published. Advice to Pain. Not Published. End of Appendix X. Part 6. Mark Twain's Works from 1900 to 1910. End. End of Mark Twain A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine. Volume 3. Read by John Greenman.