The typescript reads “your mark in my office,” clearly a mistranscription.

32. SLC 1851.

33. 8 Dec 1887 to OC, NPV.

34. AD, 4 June 1906; 20 Sept 1896 to Rogers, Salm, in HHR, 237; Notebook 39, TS p. 4, CU-MARK.

35. On 1 November he again wrote Rogers: “After I finish the present subscription book, I shall go straight on & clear out my skull. There are several books in there, & I mean to dig them out, one after the other without stopping. . . . One of them—my Autobiography—should be sold by subscription, I judge” (1 Nov 1896 to Rogers, Salm, in HHR, 243–44).

36. Paine published it as “Early Days” (MTA, 1:81–115).

37. 17 June 1906 to Howells, NN-BGC, in MTHL, 2:811.

38. Clemens evidently revised the title again on the typescript (now lost) that he sent to the Century. See the editorial headnote to this manuscript.

39. 10 Oct 1898 to Bok, ViU. The “too independent” words may have been “the bowels of some of the men virtually ceased from their functions” (143.35–36). Clemens had sent Bok “My Platonic Sweetheart” on 2 September, but Bok rejected it and soon Clemens himself decided against publishing it (Notebook 40, TS p. 32, CU-MARK; HHR, 365 n. 1, 373 n. 3).

40. 6 and 7 Nov 1898 and 12 Nov 1898 to Rogers (2nd of 2), Salm, in HHR, 374, 376; 25 Feb 99 to Gilder, CtY-BR.

41. L4: 27 June 1871 to OC (2nd of 2), 414; 15 Oct 1871 to OLC, 472 n. 1; 17 Oct 1871 to OLC, 475 n. 1; 24 Oct 1871 to Redpath, 478.

42. “Mark Twain’s Bequest,” datelined “Vienna, May 22,” London Times, 23 May 1899, 4, in Scharnhorst 2006, 332–34; Curtis Brown 1899.

43. 3 Sept 1899 to Murray, CU-MARK.

44. The text was not included in the final form and, like the third manuscript written in 1900, is therefore published in the “Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations” section of this volume.

45. 31 Dec 1900 to MacAlister, ViU.

46. Harvey for Harper and Brothers to Rogers, 17 Oct 1900, CU-MARK.