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This collection of periodicals containing articles or anecdotes by Mark Twain, advertisements for his works, and articles about the author and his works was donated by the family of Robert Nevins Birdwhistell. The Birdwhistell collection also includes books by and about Twain, though their titles are not part of this finding aid.

The University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle no. 42 explains: "[T]hrough Ray L. Birdwhistell, the family of Robert Nevins Birdwhistell, D.V.M., gave in his memory a magnificent collection of the works of Mark Twain—first and later editions, and ephemera." The family made their donation in 1973; at the time, Dr. Birdwhistell's son Raymond L. Birdwhistell was a professor at Penn's Annenberg School for Communication.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in 1835 in Missouri, and spent his early adult life as a riverboat pilot and a gold miner, eventually turning to journalism in the 1860s. By 1868, the year the first item in the Library's periodical collection was published, Twain had mostly ended his career as a newspaperman and was instead writing fiction, humor and longer non-fiction pieces for magazines. Twain's first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, was published in 1873, followed by twelve more novels, the last published posthumously in 1916. During his career as an author he travelled the United States and the world, offering commentary on what he saw and heard wherever he went, both in writing and through speaking engagements, and became one of America's best-known authors along the way. He died in Connecticut in 1910.

The periodicals from the Library's collection of Mark Twain materials span a period of 100 years. The earliest item in the collection is the July 1868 issue of Bret Harte's magazine The Overland Monthly, containing an article by Twain entitled "By Rail Through France;" the most recent item is the December 20, 1968 issue of Life Magazine, containing an unfinished story about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

The collection consists of about 130 physical items, containing over 150 articles by and about Twain, as well as advertisements for his works. The finding aid lists the publications in which the pieces appear in alphabetical order; individual articles and advertisements are listed inside each publication heading in chronological order. The Library call number for each piece is noted below the entry for that item.

The finding aid illustrates the wide range of periodicals that published Twain's work during (and after) his lifetime, as well as the public fascination with his life and works that continued well after his death.

Of note in the collection: From 1870 to 1871, Twain wrote approximately ten pages of "memoranda" a month for The Galaxy, the "illustrated magazine of entertaining reading." The Library holds each of these issues. (N.B. There were no "Memoranda" for March 1871.)

In 1875, The Atlantic Monthly published a seven part series called "Old Times on the Mississippi," in which Twain tells stories from his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi.

Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain's seventh novel, is serialized in seven issues of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine from 1893-1894.

The collection includes three almanacs that contain anecdotes by Twain. The anecdotes in the Old Farmer's Almanac and Nast's Illustrated Almanac come from "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once," which first appeared as part of The Galaxy "Memoranda" for July 1870 (also printed in The Days' Doings, Penn Libraries call number Portfolio AC85 C5915 L870f).

In 1905, Harper's Weekly released a "souvenir number" to celebrate Twain's 70th birthday. The issue included pictures of the dinner tables at Twain's birthday soirée and records of the speeches given. The Library's collection also contains a scrapbook with the souvenir number of Harper's and other articles about Twain (listed under the Harper's Weekly series in the finding aid).

The collection includes another scrapbook, collecting the issues of Harper's Monthly Magazine that serialized Twain's novel Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in 1895 and 1896. The scrapbook, donated by Miss S. Frances Vankirk, also includes illustrations of the heroine from other sources and other articles relating to Joan of Arc and Mark Twain.

In addition to containing articles by Twain himself, the collection chronicles the reception of Twain's works. The Atlantic Monthly reviewed Twain's works and ran articles about his life into the 1940's; The American Mercury discussed the rating of Twain as an author and answered the question, "Who Reads Mark Twain?" with a readership study taken in public libraries; The Critic profiled Twain "from an Italian point of view"; Life Magazine attempted to illustrate the more subversive side of Twain forty years after his death, and so on.

The meticulousness of the collector is revealed by the presence of one issue of The Californian, an offshoot of Bret Harte's The Overland Monthly. This issue is included in the collection because of a single mention of Twain in an article about the exhibit of Californian literature at the World's Fair.

"Library Notes." University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle. Vol. 42. 1977-1978.

Gift of Ray L. Birdwhistell, 1973

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Ellen Williams
Finding Aid Date
2012
Sponsor
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
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Mark Twain's San Francisco. By Bernard Taper. Illustrated, 1963 August.
Volume Issue XIV-5 Page 50-53, 93-94
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L963m

On the Rating of Mark Twain. By Fred Lewis Pattee, 1928 June.
Volume Issue XIV-54 Page 183-191
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L928o
Who Reads Mark Twain? By Charles H. Compton, 1934 April.
Volume Issue XXXI-124 Page 465-471
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L934w

Old Times on the Mississippi, I, 1875 January.
Volume Issue XXXV-207 Page 69-73
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.1
Old Times on the Mississippi, II. A "Cub" Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River, 1875 February.
Volume Issue XXXV-208 Page 217-224
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.2
Old Times on the Mississippi, III. The Continued Perplexities of "Cub" Piloting, 1875 March.
Volume Issue XXXV-209 Page 283-289
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.3
Old Times on the Mississippi, IV. The "Cub" Pilot's Education nearly Completed, 1875 April.
Volume Issue XXXV-210 Page 446-452
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.4
Old Times on the Mississippi, V. "Sounding;" Faculties peculiarly necessary to a Pilot, 1875 May.
Volume Issue XXXV-211 Page 567-574
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.5
Old Times on the Mississippi, VI. Official Rank and Dignity of a Pilot; The Rise and Decadence of the Pilots' Association, 1875 June.
Volume Issue XXXV-212 Page 721-730
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.6
Old Times on the Mississippi, VII. Leaving Port; Racing; Shortening of the River by Cut-Offs; A Steamboat's Ghost; "Stephen's" Plan of "Resumption", 1875 July.
Volume Issue XXXV-212 Page 190
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.7
  2. AC85 C5915 L875o pt.7 copy 2
Review of Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old, 1875 December.
Volume Issue XXXVI-218 Page 749-751
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L875u
A Literary Nightmare, 1876 February.
Volume Issue XXXVII-220 Page 167-169
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L876l
Review of Tom Sawyer, 1876 May.
Volume Issue XXXVII-223 Page 621-622
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L876l
  2. AC85 C5915 L876u
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, 1876 May.
Volume Issue XXXVII-223 Page 641-650
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L876l
A Canvasser's Tale, 1876 December.
Volume Issue XXXVIII-230 Page 673-676
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L876c
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, IV, 1878 January.
Volume Issue XLI-243 Page 12-19
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L878s
The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton, 1878 March.
Volume Issue XLI-245 Page 320-330
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L878s
About Magnanimous-Incident Literature, 1878 May.
Volume Issue XLI-247 Page 615-619
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L878s
Mark Twain and the Tichenor Bonanza. By Lowry Charles Wimberly, 1943 November.
Volume Issue 172-5 Page 119
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L943m
Mark Twain: Business Man. Letters and Memoirs. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster, 1944 August.
Volume Issue 174-2 Page 71-77
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L944m
Mark Twain's River. By Dixon Wecter, 1948 October.
Volume Issue 182-4 Page 45-47
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L948m

Advertisement for Mark Twain's Books, published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1910 June.
Volume Issue XXXVIII-225 Page front ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L910m
The Humour of Mark Twain. By Barry Pain. With photographs, 1910 June.
Volume Issue XXXVIII-225 Page 107-111
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L910m
Some Illustrations from Mark Twain's Books, 1910 June.
Volume Issue XXXVIII-225 Page 109
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L910m
Mark Twain, The Man and the Jester. By Walter Jerrold. Illustrated, 1910 June.
Volume Issue XXXVIII-225 Page 111-116
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L910m
Mark Twain: Some Personal Recollections and Opinions by Jerome K. Jerome, E.V. Lucas, Walter Emanuel, J.J. Bell, Leonard Henslowe, Arnold Bennett, Owen Seaman, W. Pett Ridge, and F. Anstey Guthrie. Illustrated, 1910 June.
Volume Issue XXXVIII-225 Page 116-119
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    Missing Title
  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L910m

The Story of Mark Twain's Debts. By Frederick A. King, 1906 January.
Volume Issue XXII-5 Page 519-522
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L906s

Mention of Mark Twain in an article about the Californian literature exhibit at the World's Fair, 1893 August.
Volume Issue IV-3 Page 481
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893a

A Curious Experience, 1881 November.
Volume Issue XXIII-1 Page 35-46
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L881c
Review of The Prince and the Pauper, 1882 March.
Volume Issue XXIII-5 Page 783-784
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L881c
Portrait of Mark Twain. Engraved by T. Cole, after the painting by Abbott H. Thayer, 1882 September.
Volume Issue XXIV-5 Page frontispiece
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L882m
An Adventure of Huckleberry Finn: With an Account of the Famous Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud. Illustrated, 1884 December.
Volume Issue XXIX-2 Page 268-278
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L884a
  2. AC85 C5915 L884a copy 2
Jim's Investments, and King Sollermun. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble, 1885 January.
Volume Issue XXIX-3 Page 456-458
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L885j
Royalty on the Mississippi as Chronicled by Huckleberry Finn. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble, 1885 February.
Volume Issue XXIX-4 Page 545-567
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L885r
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble with maps by the author, 1885 December.
Volume Issue XXXI-2 Page 193-204
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L885p
  2. AC85 C5915 L885p copy 2
Letter by Twain as part of a series of 45 open letters on International Copyright, 1886 February.
Volume Issue XXXI-4 Page 634
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L886o
English as She is Taught, 1887 April.
Volume Issue XXXIII-6 Page 932-936
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L887e
  2. AC85 C5915 L887e copy 2
Meisterschaft: In Three Acts, 1888 April.
Volume Issue XXXV-3 Page 457-467
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L888m
  2. AC85 C5915 L888m copy 2
  3. AC85 C5915 L888m copy 3
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Illustrated by Dan Beard, 1889 November.
Volume Issue XXXIX-1 Page 74-82
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L889c
  2. AC85 C5915 L889c copy 2
The £1,000,000 Note. Ilustrated by Dan Beard, 1893 January.
Volume Issue XLV-3 Page 338-346
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893o
  2. AC85 C5915 L893o copy 2
  3. AC85 C5915 L893o copy 3
  4. AC85 C5915 L893o copy 4
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapters I-III. With a portrait of the author by James Mapes Dodge, 1893 December.
Volume Issue XLVII-2 Page 233-240
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.2
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapter IV-VIII. Illustrated by Louis Loeb, 1894 January.
Volume Issue XLVII-3 Page 329-340
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.3
  2. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.3 copy 2
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapters IX-XI. Illustrated by Louis Loeb, 1894 Febraury.
Volume Issue XLVII-4 Page 548-557
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.4
  2. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.4 copy 2
  3. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.4 copy 3
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapters XII-XIV. Illustrated by Louis Loeb, 1894 March.
Volume Issue XLVII-5 Page 772-781
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.5
  2. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.5 copy 2
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapters XV-XVII. Illustrated by Louis Loeb, 1894 April.
Volume Issue XLVII-6 Page 817-822
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.47 no.6
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapters XVIII-XIX. Illustrated by Louis Loeb, 1894 May.
Volume Issue XLVIII-1 Page 17-24
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.48 no.1
  2. AC85 C5915 L893p v.48 no.1 copy 2
  3. AC85 C5915 L893p v.48 no.1 copy 3
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapter XX. Illustrated by Louis Loeb, 1894 June.
Volume Issue XLVIII-2 Page 232-240
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893p v.48 no.2
  2. AC85 C5915 L893p v.48 no.2 copy 2
Mark Twain in California. By Noah Brooks. Illustrated by Sarony, 1898 November.
Volume Issue LVII-1 Page 97-99
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L898f
From the "London Times" of 1904, 1898 November.
Volume Issue LVII-1 Page 100-104
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L898f
Two Little Tales. I. The Man with a Message for the Director-General. II. How the Chimney-Sweep got the Ear of the Emperor. Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele, 1901 November.
Volume Issue LXIII-1 Page 24-32
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L901t
  2. AC85 C5915 L901t copy 2
  3. AC85 C5915 L901t copy 3
Mrs. Howe to Mark Twain. Poem by Julia Ward Howe, 1806 March.
Volume Issue LXXI-5 Page 817
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L906m3

The Esquimau Maiden's Romance. Ilustrated by Dan Beard, 1893 November.
Volume Issue XVI-1 Page 53-63
Travelling With a Reformer. Illustrated by Dan Beard, 1893 December.
Volume Issue XVI-2 Page 207-217
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L893t
At the Appetite Cure. Illustrated by Peter Newell, 1898 August.
Volume Issue XXV-4 Page 425-433
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L898a
  2. AC85 C5915 L898a copy 2
Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy, 1899 October.
Volume Issue XXVII-6 Page 586-594
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L899c

Mark Twain from an Italian Point of View. By Raffaele Simboli, with his own photographs, 1904 June.
Volume Issue 44-6 Page 518-524
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L904m

Mark Twain's Appreciation of Mr. Howells, 1906 July.
Volume Issue XLI-1 Page 48-49
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L906m
Mark Twain's Life of Samuel L. Clemens. With photograph, 1906 October.
Volume Issue XLI-4 Page 389-392
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L906m2
Mark Twain's Idea of Heaven, 1909 December.
Volume Issue XLVII-6 Page 653-657
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L909m

Memoranda, 1870 May.
Volume Issue 9-5 Page 717-726
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870 m v.9
Memoranda, 1870 June.
Volume Issue 9-6 Page 858-867
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.9
  2. AC85 C5915 L870m v.9 no.6
Memoranda, 1870 July.
Volume Issue 10-1 Page 133-141
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
Portrait of Mark Twain, 1870 August.
Volume Issue 10-2 Page 212
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
  2. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.2
  3. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.2 copy 2
Memoranda, 1870 August.
Volume Issue 10-2 Page 286-287
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
  2. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.2
  3. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.2 copy 2
Memoranda, 1870 September.
Volume Issue 10-3 Page 424-432
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
  2. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.3
  3. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.3 copy 2
Memoranda, 1870 October.
Volume Issue 10-4 Page 567-576
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    Call number
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
  2. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.4
  3. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.4 copy 2
Mark Twain's Map of Paris. With fold-out map, 1870 November.
Volume Issue 10-5 Page 724-725
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
Memoranda, 1870 November.
Volume Issue 10-5 Page 726-735
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
Memoranda, 1870 December.
Volume Issue 10-6 Page 876-885
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10
  2. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.6
  3. AC85 C5915 L870m v.10 no.6 copy 2
Memoranda, 1871 January.
Volume Issue 11-1 Page 150-159
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.11 no.1
Memoranda, 1871 February.
Volume Issue 11-2 Page 312-321
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.11 no.2
Memoranda, 1871 April.
Volume Issue 11-4 Page 615-618
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L870m v.11 no.4

Leaves from the Autograph Album of Mrs. Edwin Booth, Part I. Introduction by Otis Skinner, with two pages by Mark Twain, 1929 September.
Volume Issue X-57 Page 39-42
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L929l

Luck: A Story, 1891 August.
Volume Issue LXXXIII-495 Page 407-409
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L891L
Scrapbook on Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1895 April-1896 April.
Volume Issue XC-539--XCII-551 Page 1-203
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L895p
General note

Includes each page of the serialized novel from Harper's Magazine, removed from the magazine and attached to the pages of the scrapbook. Donated by Miss S. Frances Vankirk.

In Memoriam: Olivia Susan Clemens, 1897 November.
Volume Issue XCV-570 Page 929-930
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L897i
Stirring Times in Austria. Illustrated by Clifford Carleton, T. De Thulstrup and Harry Fenn, 1898 March.
Volume Issue XCVI-574 Page 530-540
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L898s
Extracts from Adam's Diary, Translated from the Original Manuscript, 1901 April.
Volume Issue CII-611 Page 762-767
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L901e
The Californian's Tale, 1902 March.
Volume Issue CIV-622 Page 601-604
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L902c
Advertisement for "Mark Twain's Life" by Albert Bigelow Paine, 1912 December.
Volume Issue CXXVI-751 Page front ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L912m
Advertisement for "Mark Twain's Works," published by Harper & Bros., 1912 December.
Volume Issue CXXVI-751 Page front ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L912m
My Platonic Sweetheart, 1912 December.
Volume Issue CXXVI-751 Page 14-20
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L912m
Advertisement for "Mark Twain--A Biography" by Albert Bigelow Paine, 1914 October.
Volume Issue CXXIX-773 Page front ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L914s
Advertisement for "Mark Twain's Works," published by Harper & Bros., 1914 October.
Volume Issue CXXIX-773 Page front ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L914s
A Scrap of Curious History, 1914 October.
Volume Issue CXXIX-773 Page 672-675
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L914s
Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Part I, 1922 February.
Volume Issue CXLIV-861 Page 273-280
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L922u v.144 no.861
Advertisement for "How to Tell A Story," published by P.F. Collier & Son, 1922 March.
Volume Issue CXLIV-862 Page front ad section
Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Part II, 1922 March.
Volume Issue CXLIV-862 Page 455-460
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L922u v.144 no.862
  2. AC85 C5915 L922u v.144 no.862 copy 2
Advertisement for "The Complete Uniform Edition of Mark Twain's Works," published by P.F. Collier & Son, 1922 August.
Volume Issue CXLV-867 Page front ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L922u v.145 no.867
Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1922 August.
Volume Issue CXLV-867 Page 310-315
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L922u v.145 no.867
  2. AC85 C5915 L922u v.145 no.867 copy 2
Mark Twain Speaks Out: Four Unpublished Pieces. I.No Terrors for Me. II. Honorary Degrees. III. Amateur Writings. IV. Humor. Edited by Charles Neider, Illustrated by Barrie McDowell, 1958 December.
Volume Issue CCXVII-1303 Page 36-41
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    Missing Title
  1. AC85 C5915 L958m

Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1902 October 25.
Volume Issue XLVI-2392 Page 1545
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L902c2
Mark Twain Unveils a Tablet to Eugene Field. With photographs, 1902 July 5.
Volume Issue XLVI-2376 Page 851
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L902f
The Five Boons of Life: An Allegory, 1902 July 5.
Volume Issue XLVI-2376 Page 866
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L902f
Harper's Christmas Suggestions: A Double-Barrelled Detective Story, Mark Twain's New Humorous Novelette, 1902 December 20.
Volume Issue XLVI-2400 Page front ad section
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L902t
Mr. Reed's Last Speech, Made at the Dinner given to celebrate the sixty-seventh Birthday of his friend, Mark Twain, 1902 December 20.
Volume Issue XLVI-2400 Page 1981-1982
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L902t
"Mark Twain published in Harper's Magazine, in 1898, an article about Jews which has since been included in one of his published books--The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg...", 1905 March 18.
Volume Issue XLIX-2517 Page 383
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    Missing Title
  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905f
General note

A paragraph in the magazine's weekly editorial section; part of a series of comments about Jews and Jewishness.

From My Unpublished Autobiography. With photographs, 1905 March 18.
Volume Issue XLIX-2517 Page 391
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905f
"More notable than that the best-known women writers are not college-bred is that Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Mark Twain... were not college graduates...", 1905 April 8.
Volume Issue XLIX-2520 Page 491
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905h
General note

A paragraph in the magazine's weekly editorial section; part of a series of comments about the college education of authors.

A Humane Word from Satan, 1905 April 8.
Volume Issue XLIX-2520 Page 496
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905h
A Monument to Adam, 1905 July 15.
Volume Issue XLIX-2534 Page 1008
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905m
Advertisement for Mark Twain's Complete Works, published by Harper & Brothers, 1905 July 15.
Volume Issue XLIX-2534 Page back ad section
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    Missing Title
  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905m
Mark Twain's Birthday Souvenir Number, 1905 December 23.
Volume Issue XLIX-2537 Page 1884-1914
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L905m2
General note

Report on Twain's 70th birthday party, including records of the speeches given and photographs of the dinner tables.

Mark Twain's Seventieth Birthday: Souvenir of its Celebration, 1905 December 5.
Volume Issue Special reprint of XLIX-2537 Page unpaginated
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General note

Reprint of the souvenir number listed above. This copy was donated by Miss Dorothy M. Becker and includes 2 newspaper articles pasted in the front cover.

Carl Schurz, Pilot. Photograph of Schurz is the issue's frontispiece, 1906 May 26.
Volume Issue L-2579 Page 727
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The Late Benjamin Franklin, 1872.
Year 1872 Page 26-27
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Advice to Little Girls, 1872.
Year 1872 Page 47
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In a Long-suppressed Work, a Satanic View of Man and God. With photographs of Twain, 1962 September 28.
Volume Issue 53-13 Page 108-110, 114, 119-123
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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians. Including "The reasons Mark Twain did not finish his story." Illustrations by James McMullen, 1968 December 20.
Volume Issue 65-25 Page 32-50A
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Editorial notes on "From India to South Africa" and "A Character Sketch", 1897 October.
Volume Issue IX-6 Page 1103
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From India to South Africa: The Diary of a Voyage. Illustrated by A.B. Frost, with a portrait of Mark Twain by Elfred Ellis, 1897 November.
Volume Issue X-1 Page 3-18
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  2. AC85 C5915 L897f copy 2
Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain." A Character Sketch by Robert Barr, 1898 January.
Volume Issue X-3 Page 246-251
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A Contract. A Poem in "Literary Chat", 1895 October.
Volume Issue XIV-1 Page 117
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  3. AC85 C5915 L895c copy 3

Quotes from "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once", 1872.
Volume 45 Page 7
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To the Person Sitting in Darkness, 1901 February.
Volume Issue CLXXII-531 Page 161-176
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Mark Twain: An Inquiry. By W.D. Howells, 1901 February.
Volume Issue CLXXII-531 Page 306-321
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To My Missionary Critics, 1901 April.
Volume Issue CLXXII-533 Page 520-534
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Mark Twain's Hints About Nature, 1875.
Volume 83 Page 40
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By Rail Through France, 1868 July.
Volume Issue I-1 Page 18-21
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A Californian Abroad--A Few Parisian Sights, 1868 August.
Volume Issue I-2 Page 120-126
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A Californian Abroad--Three Italian Cities, 1868 September.
Volume Issue I-3 Page 209-215
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A Californian Abroad--A Mediaeval Romance, 1868 October.
Volume Issue I-4 Page 316-320
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A Medieval Romance. With a portrait of Twain by Alice Resor, 1907 November.
Volume Issue L-5 Page 483-492
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The Mark Twain Number, 1929 April.
Volume Issue 87-4 Page multiple
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  1. Folio AC85 C5915 L929m
General note

This issue of Overland Monthly was dedicated to Twain and includes photographs of Twain and unpublished letters by him, as well as tributes and poems to him and articles about him.

Ghost Life on the Mississippi: A Mark Twain Manuscript. Foreward by Samuel C. Webster, 1948 Autumn.
Volume Issue II-4 Page 485-490
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Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt, 1869 March.
Volume Issue II-3 Page 89-91
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An Open Letter to Mark Twain. By J.B., 1869 April.
Volume Issue II-4 Page 120
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Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins, 1869 August.
Volume Issue II-8 Page 249-250
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Mark Twain on St. Patrick, 1876 June.
Volume Issue 1-3 Page 287-288
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Mark Twain Buys a Horse, 1876 July.
Volume Issue I-4 Page 372-373
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