Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays: 1891-1910

(1) 1852: The dandy frightening the squatter

Historical exhibition - A no. 1 ruse

Editorial agility

Blabbing government secrets! 1859: River intelligence. 1861: Ghost life on the Mississippi. 1862: Petrified man. 1863: Letter from Carson City

Ye sentimental law student

All about fashions

Letter from Steamboat Springs

How to cure a cold

The Lick House Ball

The great prize fight

The great prize fight

A bloody massacre near Carson

"Ingomar" over the mountains. 1864: Miss Clapp's school

Doings in Nevada

Those blasted children

Washoe.- "Information Wanted"

The evidence in the case of Smith vs. Jones

Whereas

A touching story of George Washington's boyhood

The killing of Julius Caesar "localized"

Lucretia Smith's soldier. 1865: Important correspondence

Answers to correspondence

Advice for good little boys

Advice for good little girls

Just "One more unfortunate"

Real estate versus Imaginary possessions, poetically considered

Jim Smiley and his jumping frog

"Mark Twain" on the launch of the steamer "Capital"

The pioneers' ball

Uncle Lige

A rich epigram

Macdougall vs. Maguire

The Christmas fireside. 1866: Policemen's presents

What have the police been doing?

The spiritual séance

A new biography of Washington

Reflections on the Sabbath. 1867: Barnum's first speech in Congress

Female suffrage: Views of Mark Twain

Female suffrage

Official physic

A reminiscence of Artemus Ward

Jim Wolf and the tom-cats

Information wanted

The facts concerning the recent resignation.

1868: Woman an opinion

General Washington's Negro body-servant

Colloquy between a slum child and a moral mentor

My late senatorial secretaryship

The story of Mamie Grant, the child-missionary

Cannibalism in cars

Private habits of Horace Greeley

Concerning Gen. Grant's intentions. 1869: Open letter to Com. Vanderbilt

Mr. Beecher and the clergy

Personal habits of the Siamese twins

A day at Niagara

A fine old man

Journalism in Tennessee

The last words of great men

The legend of the Capitoline Venus

Getting my fortune told

Back from "Yurrup" 1870: An awful terrible medieval romance

A mysterious visit

The facts in the great land-slide case

The new crime

Curious dream About smells The facts in the case of the great beef contract The story of the good little boy who did not prosper Disgraceful persecution of a boy - -Misplaced confidence Our precious lunatic A couple of sad experiences

The judge's "Spirited woman"

Breaking it gently

Post-mortem poetry

Wit-inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"

The widow's protest

Report to the Buffalo Female Academy

How I edited an agricultural paper once

The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870

Unburlesquable things

The late Benjamin Franklin

A memory

Domestic missionaries wanted

Political economy

John Chinamen in New York

The noble red man

The approaching epidemic

A royal compliment

Science vs. luck

Goldsmith's friend abroad again

Map of Paris

Riley-newspaper correspondent

A reminiscence of the back settlements

A general replay

Running for governor

Dogberry in Washington

My watch

An instructive little tale.

1871: The facts in the case of George Fisher, deceased

The tone-imparting committee

The danger of lying in bed

One of mankind's bores

The indignity put upon the remains of George Holland by the Rev. Mr. Sabine

A substitute for Rulloff

About Barbers

A brace of brief lectures on science

The revised catechism. 1872: The secret of Dr. Livingstone's continued voluntary exile

How I escaped being killed in a duel. 1873: Poor little Stephen Girard

Foster's case

License of the press

Fourth of July speech in London

The ladies. 1874: The annual bills

The temperance insurrection

Rogers

A curious pleasure excursion

A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it

An encounter with an interviewer. 1875: The "Jumping Frog." In English. Then in French. Then clawed back into a civilized language once more, by patient, unremunerated toil

Experience of McWilliamses with membranous croup

Some learned fables for good old boys and girls

Petition concerning copyright

"Party cries" in Ireland

The curious Republic of Gondour.

1876: A literary nightmare

The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut

[Date, 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the social fireside, in the time of the Tudors

The canvasser's tale

The oldest inhabitant

The weather of New England. 1877: Francis Lightfoot Lee

My military history

The captain's story

The invalid's story

Whittier birthday speech. 1978: Farewell banquet for Bayard Taylor

About magnanimous-incident literature. 1879: The great revolution in Pitcairn

Some thoughts on the science of Onanism

A presidential candidate

The babies. As they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities

The new postal barbarism

Postal matters. 1880: A telephonic conversation

Reply to a Boston girl

Edward Mills and George Benton: A tale

Mrs. McWilliams and lightning

"Millions in it"

A cat tale. 1881: The benefit of judicious training

Dinner speech in Montreal

Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims

Etiquette. 1882: Advice to youth

The stolen white elephant

On the decay of the art of lying

Concerning the American language

Woman

God bless her

The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm. 1883: On Adam

Why a statue of Liberty when we have Adam! 1883: On Adam

Mock oration on the dead partisan. 1885: The character of man

On speech-making reform

The private history of a campaign that failed. 1886: The new dynasty

Our children

Taming the bicycle. 1887: Letter from the recording angel

Dinner speech: General Grant's grammar

Consistency

Post - prandial oratory

A petition to the Queen of England. 1888: American authors and British pirates. 1889: Yale College speech

The christening yarn

To Walt Whitman. 1890: On foreign critics

Reply to the editor of "The art of authorship"

An appeal against injudicious swearing.

[2] 1891-1910

1891:

Aix-les-Bains

Playing courier

Mental telegraphy. 1892: The cradle of liberty. 1893: The 1,000,000 bank-note

About all kinds of ships

Extracts form dam's diary

Is he living or is he dead?

The Esquimau maiden's romance

Travelling with a reformer

Concerning tobacco. 1894: Private history of the "Jumping frog" story

Macfarlane. 1895: What Paul Bourget thinks of us

Fenimore Cooper's literary offences

Fenimore Cooper's further literary offenses

How to tell a story. 1896: Man's place in the world. 1897: In memoriam

Which was the dream? 1898: A word of encouragement for our blushing exiles

About play-acting

From the "London Times" of 1904

My platonic sweetheart

The great dark. 1899: Diplomatic pay and clothes

Concerning the Jews

Christian Science and the book of Mrs. Eddy

The man that corrupted Hadleyburg

My first lie and how I got out of it. 1900: My boyhood dreams

Introducing Winston S. Churchill

A salutation-speech from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, taken down in short-hand by Mark Twain. 1901: To the person sitting in darkness

Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought down to date)

As regards patriotism

The United States of lyncherdom

Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany

Two little tales

Corn-pone opinions.

1902: Does the race of man love a lord?

The five boons of life

Was it heaven? or hell?

The dervish and the offensive stranger. 1903: Why not abolish it?

Mark Twain, Abe Yachtsman, on why Lipton failed to lift the cup

A dog's tale

"Was the world made for man?" 1904: Italian without a master

Saint Joan of Arc

The $30,000 bequest. 1905: Concerning copyright

Adam's soliloquy

The czar's soliloquy

Dr. Loeb's incredible discovery

The war prayer

A humane word from Satan

Christian citizenship

King Leopold's soliloquy: A defense of his Congo rule

A helpless situation

Overspeeding

In the animal's court

Eve's diary

Eve speaks

Seventieth birthday dinner speech

Old age. 1906: The Gorky incident

William Dean Howells

What is man?

Hunting the deceitful turkey. 1907: Dinner speech at Annapolis

Our guest

The day we celebrate

Little Nelly tells a story out of her own head

Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven. 1908: Little Bessie. 1909: The new planet

A fable

Letters from the earth. 1910: "The turning point of my life" Appendix: More maxims of Mark.