Acknowledgments
Thanks to my wife, Kimberley for her love and support. Special thanks to Thomas A. Tenney for his continual support, anecdotes, and advice, to whom this 2nd edition volume is dedicated.

CONVENTIONS USED
Dates: I have followed the conventions used by the University of California Press on the volumes of Mark Twain’s Letters, except I have added the day of the week. To wit:

October 5 Thursday – Sources indicate this is a confirmed date, or a deduced date from events or other evidence. Firm dates come before conjectured or circa dates and date ranges.

October 3? Tuesday – The question mark indicates a conjecture of October 3. Conjecture dates are listed separately.

Works Cited

Abshire, Janet L. “Snodgrass, Thomas Jefferson.” The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993: 694.

Anderson, Frederick, et al, eds. Mark Twain’s Notebooks & Journals, Volume 1-3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975-1979.

Anderson, Frederick and William M. Gibson and Henry Nash Smith, eds. Selected Mark Twain- Howells Letters 1872-1910. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1967.

Andrews, Kenneth R. Nook Farm – Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1950.

The index of the second edition, Vol. I is organized alphabetically, not chronologically, and follows the standards set in Vols 2-4, first edition. The following have not been indexed: fictional characters, most newspaper articles and subheadings (especially from the San Francisco Call), all subjects of all letters, whether paraphrased, summarized, or quoted, as well as persons and places within autobiographical dictation summaries See AMT 1: for more on specifics. Not all subjects listed under Autobiographical Dictations have been indexed, but many have.

• A. Dusuzeau (Parisian merchant), 926
• A. Fletcher, Mrs. (N.Y. merchant), 947
• A. Schmidt & Co., 513
• A.A. Vantine & Co. (N.Y. merchant), 1056
• A.D. Vorce & Co., 958, 983
• A.J. Glazier (Hartford real estate), 982
• A.J. Hopkins (Hartford merchant), 981
• A.K. Talcott (merchant), 737
• A.P. Mitchell, stockbroker, 1051
• A.S.

• B., M.M., 687
• Baalbek, Lebanon, 274
• Babcock Fire Extinguisher Co., 483, 1119
• Babcock, Charles S., 710
• Babcock, Henrietta B., 1359
• Babcock, John Martin Luther, 710
• Babcock, W.J., 489
• Babe, Jerome L., 480
• Babyhood Magazine, 1326
• Bacon, Catherine Lakenan, 472
• Bacon, Francis, Dr., 1255
• Bacon, George, 472
• Bacon, Mary E., 471, 472
• Badeau, Adam, 539, 542, 1260, 1318, 1326, 1369, 1375, 1376
  • Source of rumors, 1328

• C. McCarthy of Boston, 908, 915
• C., F.B., 656
• C.G. Gunther’s Sons (N.Y. furrier), 938
• C.H.H. Schuh (Swiss merchant), 827
• C.S.

• D. & C. Mac Iver, 835, 866
• D.G. Lowry (bookseller), 747
• D.P. Ives & Co. (merchant), 738
• D.R. Woodford (Hartford merchant), 645
• D.S.

• E. Habenstein (Hartford baker), 480, 960
• E.A. Newell (Hartford clothier), 1344
• E.C. Wheaton, livery, 704, 727
• E.C.C. Kellogg & Co. (merchant), 501, 502
• E.D. Roberts (Hartford merchant), 496, 508
• E.L. Bullock (Hartford workman), 941, 946
• E.P. & Wm. Kellogg (merchant), 556
• E.W. Clark & Son (Hartford roofer), 940
• E.W. Kellogg, Dr., 638
• Eakins, Frank J., 1215
• Ealer, George, 53, 55, 58, 60
• Early Travels in Palestine, etc. (1848) by Thomas Wright, 783
• Earnest, Frank B.

• F.A.O. Schwartz, 937, 1046, 1069, 1088
• F.W. Christern (N.Y. book importer), 988, 1076
• Fackler, J.G., 235, 236, 239
• Faerie Queen and Epithalamion, The by Edmund Spenser, 929
• Fagan, M. (investigator), 769, 772, 773, 774
• Fairbanks family, 318, 329, 330, 338, 437, 473, 488, 583, 727
• Fairbanks, Abel W., 318, 320, 329, 341, 351, 355, 356, 357, 358, 363, 711
• Fairbanks, Alice (Mrs. William H.

• G.A. Hayden (Hartford merchant), 1344
• G.A.R., 462, 466, 1345
• G.F. Heublein & Bro. (Hartford merchant), 960
• G.H. Olmstead, Jr. (Hartford merchant), 994
• G.S. Whiting (Hartford merchant), 920
• G.W. Carleton & Co., 702, 744
• G.W. Fuller & Son, 960
• G.W.

• H.A. Botsford (Hartford merchant), 519, 525
• H.L. Bundy of Hartford (photographers), 1384
• H.O. Griswold (Hartford merchant), 970, 983
• H.O. Houghton & Co., 623, 628, 629, 635, 674, 777
• Habberton, John, 1206
• Haddon, Frederick W., 588
• Haete, W., 746
• Hague, The, 864
• Haiku, Maui, 207
• Haldeman, Jacob S. (Judge), 259, 272
• Hale & Norcross mining stock, 172, 173
• Hale, A.S., 501
• Haleakala volcano, 205, 207, 248
• Haliburton, R.E., 712
• Hall, Abraham Oakey, 515
• Hall, B.W.

• Ideal Monthly Magazine, The, 1181
• Idylls of the King by Tennyson, 1212
• Ihne (Professor), 814
• Iles, George, 1190, 1196, 1242, 1244, 1262, 1301, 1325
• Illustrated Christian Weekly, 1253, 1254
• Incorporated Society Authors, 1255
• Independent Watch Co. of Fredonia, 976, 1013, 1067, 1101, 1104, 1112, 1113
• Independent Watch Co.

• J.E. Larkin (Elmira photographer), 1360
• J.G. Rathbun & Co., 925, 938, 961, 983, 1344
• J.J. & T. Goodwin, 946
• J.J. Huppuch (contractor), 469
• J.J. Little (printers), 1276
• J.P. Haynes (grocer), 1354
• J.P. Newton, 919, 944, 950, 958, 969, 975, 983, 989
• J.R. Barlow (Hartford bookseller), 914, 926
• J.S.

• Kaalualu, Hawaii, 211
• Kai Moi (Schooner), 208
• Kailau Bay, 210
• Kalakaua, David, 204, 215, 626, 627
• Kalamazoo Gazette, 474
• Kalamazoo Telegraph, 474
• Kalamazoo, Mich., 474
• Kamehameha, 204, 209, 211
• Kamehameha V, 204, 1378, 1379, 1395
  • death of, 519
• Kandersteg, Switzerland, 827
• Kane, Elisha Kent, 56
• Kane, Mollie, 1105
• Kansas Freie Presse, 1225
• Kansas-Nebraska Act, 36
• Kaolatype (engraving process), 881, 895, 899, 901, 925, 967, 97

• L. Conlen (contractor), 935
• L. Daniels (merchant), 528, 563
• L. Prang & Co., 1209, 1210
• La Cossitt, Henry, 16
  • established Gazette, 13
• La dame blanche (opera), 845
• La Morte Civile (play), 957
• La Plata Hall, Va. City, 127
• LaBarge, Charles S. (Pilot), 24
• LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1291
• Lacy, H.

• M. Barrett (dress maker), 499
• M. Kenny (Hartford merchant), 494
• M. Nott (Hartford merchant), 522, 525, 526
• M.J.

• N. Nott (Hartford merchant), 982
• N.Y., New Haven & Hartford R.R., 982
• Nadal, E.S., 1061
• Nall, J.H., 1079
• Nameless Club, Buffalo, 360
• Nanterre, France, 859
• Napa County Reporter, 185, 186, 187
• Napa, Ca., 159
• Naples Observer, 267, 276
• Naples, Italy, 266, 267, 268, 279, 280, 787
• Napoleon, Ark., 1077
• Napton, John, 788
• Napton, William Barclay, 788
• Nasby, Petroleum V.. See Locke, David Ross
• Nash, Thomas S., 17, 20, 1287, 1324
• Nash, William H.

• O.S. Kelsey (Hartford plumber), 571
• O’Blennis, Bob, 39, 40
• O’Brien, John. See Raymond, John T.
• O’Connell, Daniel, 347
• O’Hagan, Joseph B., 632, 633
• O’Hara, Theodore, 1078
• O’Lanus, Corry. See Stanton, John
• O’Neal, James (Captain), 72, 1085, 1106
• O’Neil, John (gardener), 1375
• O’Neil, William, 148
• O’Neill, Ellen (Mrs. John O’Neil), 1375
• O’Reilly, John Boyle, 895, 1123, 1124
• O’Riley, Miles.

• P.

• Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.. See Thomson, Mortimore
• Quaker, 1, 243
• Quaker City.

• R.P. Kenyon & Co. (N.Y.

• S.B. Wheeler (N.Y. merchant), 1055
• S.L. Hart (Hartford merchant), 960
• S.M.

• T. Wrightson and Co., 47
• T.R. Selme’s (Hannibal merchant), 24
• T.S. Daniels (Hartford merchant), 503, 509
• T.W. Alexander (Hartford merchant), 972
• Tabernacle, Jersey City, 483
• Taft & Starr (doctors), 479, 496, 519
• Taft, Cincinnatus A., Dr., 494, 636, 1096, 1175, 1230, 1231, 1237
  • Autopsy & Times article, 1235
  • Death of, 1232
• Taft, Ellen C. (Mrs. Cincinnatus Taft), 1096, 1130, 1175, 1232, 1233, 1235
• Taft, Laura, Miss, 1135, 1163
• Tahoe, Lake.

• U.S. Declared war on Mexico, 12
• U.S. Naval Academy, 603, 604, 607, 609, 610, 679
• U.S. Patent Office, 285, 298
• Ulapalakua Plantation, 207
• Ulrich, H., 792
• Ulrich, Katie, 792
• Uncivilized Races, or Natural History of Man, The by Wood, 422
• Uncle Dan’l, 1004
• Uncle Remus’s Tar Baby, 974
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 292, 387
• Underground Railroad, 243, 317
• Underhill, Anna (Mrs.