Volume 1

Editorial Introduction, Volume 1

  • Description: Editorial introduction from volume one of Mark Twain's Early Tales and Sketches

A Gallant Fireman

  • Description: Hannibal Western Union, 16 January 1851

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter

  • Description: Boston Carpet Bag, May 1852

Hannibal, Missouri

  • Description: Philadelphia American Courier, 8 May 1852

A Family Muss

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 9 September 1852

'Local' Resolves to Commit Suicide

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 16 September 1852

'Pictur' Department

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 23 September 1852

Historical Exhibition—A No. 1 Ruse

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 16 September 1852

[Blab's Jour]

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 23 September 1852

Connubial Bliss

  • Description: Hannibal Journal, 4 November 1852

The Heart's Lament

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 5 May 1853

Love Concealed

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 6 May 1853

[First Letter from Grumbler]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 7 May 1853

[First Letter from Rambler]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 9 May 1853

To Rambler

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 10 May 1853

[Letter from Peter Pencilcase's Son, John Snooks]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 12 May 1853

[Second Letter from Rambler]

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 13 May 1853

Separation

  • Description: Hannibal Missouri Courier, 12 May 1853

“Oh, She Has a Red Head!”

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 13 May 1853

The Burial of Sir Abner Gilstrap, Editor of the Bloomington “Republican”

  • Description: Hannibal Daily Journal, 23 May 1853

“Jul'us Caesar”

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1855–1856

To Mollie

  • Description: Manuscript, 20 April 1856

“Lines Suggested by a Reminiscence, and Which You Will Perhaps Understand”

  • Description: Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, Early May 1856

To Jennie

  • Description: Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, 7 May 1856

[River Intelligence]

  • Description: New Orleans Crescent, 17 May 1859

[The Mysterious Murders in Risse]

  • Description: Manuscript (previously unpublished), 1 August 1859

[Pilot's Memoranda]

  • Description: St. Louis Missouri Republican, 30 August 1860

[Ghost Life on the Mississippi]

  • Description: Manuscript, January–June 1861

Petrified Man

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4 October 1862 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Sacramento Union, Nevada [CA] Democrat, San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Auburn [CA] Placer Herald)

The Spanish Mine

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, late October 1862 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Oroville [CA] Butte Record)

The Pah-Utes

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 13–19 December 1862 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Marysville [CA] Appeal)

The Illustrious Departed

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28 December 1862

Our Stock Remarks

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 30–31 December 1862

More Ghosts

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1 January 1863

New Year’s Day

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1 January 1863

Unfortunate Thief

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8 January 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Stockton Independent)

The Sanitary Ball

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 10 January 1863

Due Notice

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 10 January 1863

Territorial Sweets

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 22–28 January 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Letter from Carson City

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 3 February 1863

Letter from Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 5 February 1863

Letter from Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 8 February 1863

The Spanish

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 or 22 February 1863

Silver Bars—How Assayed

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17–22 February 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Stockton Independent)

Ye Sentimental Law Student

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19 February 1863

A Sunday in Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 24 February–31 March 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Rabb 1907)

The Unreliable

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 25 February 1863

Reportorial

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 26 February 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Marysville [CA] Appeal)

Examination of Teachers

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, March–April 1863

City Marshal Perry

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4 March 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Rabb 1907)

[Champagne with the Board of Brokers]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 7 March 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Angel 1881)

Advice to the Unreliable on Church-Going

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 April 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Rabb 1907)

Horrible Affair

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 16–18 April 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Oroville [CA] Butte Record)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19–21 May 1863

“Mark Twain's” Letter

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 9 July 1863

“Mark Twain's” Letter

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 30 July 1863

A Duel Prevented

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 2 August 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Sacramento Union, Angel 1881)

[An Apology Repudiated]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4 August 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Angel 1881)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 25 August 1863

“Mark Twain's” Letter

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 30 August 1863

Unfortunate Blunder

  • Description: San Francisco Morning Call, 3 September 1863

Bigler vs. Tahoe

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 4–5 September 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17 September 1863

How to Cure a Cold

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 20 September 1863

Mark Twain—More of Him

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 27 September 1863, and Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 21–24 June 1863

The Lick House Ball

  • Description: San Francisco Golden Era, 27 September 1863

A Bloody Massacre near Carson

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28 October 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the Gold Hill [NV] News, Sacramento Union, San Francisco Evening Bulletin)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 17 November 1863

A Tide of Eloquence

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1–3 December 1863 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Letter from Mark Twain

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 19–20 January 1864

Winters' New House

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 February 1864

An Excellent School

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 12 February 1864

Those Blasted Children

  • Description: New York Sunday Mercury, 21 February 1864

Frightful Accident to Dan De Quille

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 20 April 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; radiating text established from reprintings in the Nevada City [CA] Gazette, San Francisco Golden Era, Unionville [NV] Humboldt Register)

[Dan Reassembled]

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 28–30 April 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the MTB)

Washoe.—“Information Wanted”

  • Description: Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1–15 May 1864 (Territorial Enterprise printing is not extant; copy-text is from reprinting in the San Francisco Golden Era)

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Apparatus Introduction, Volume 1

  • Description: Textual Introduction, Guide to the Apparatus, and Description of Texts