Last but not least, we thank the Berkeley campus for granting the Project
relief from indirect costs on its grants from the Endowment. We are grateful for this and
all other forms of support from our home institution.
We thank the staff of the University Library and The Bancroft Library at Berkeley,
especially Thomas C. Leonard, University Librarian; Elaine Tennant, the James D. Hart
Director of The Bancroft Library; and Peter E. Hanff, its Deputy Director, all of whom
serve on the Board of Directors of the Mark Twain Project. To them and to the other
members of the Board—Frederick Crews, Mary C. Francis, Michael Millgate, Alison
Mudditt, George A. Starr, and G. Thomas Tanselle—we are indebted for every kind of
moral and intellectual support.
Scholars and archivists at other institutions have been vital to editorial work on this
volume. Barbara Schmidt, an independent scholar whose invaluable website devoted
to Mark Twain research (www.twainquotes.com) consistently delivers the goods, has
freely and generously shared information and documents with us. Kevin Mac Donnell,
an expert dealer and collector of Mark Twain documents, has been generous as ever. We
would also like to thank the following scholars, librarians, and archivists who assisted us
with research, documents, and permissions: Jim Boulden; Tara Brady; Lee Brumbaugh,
of the Nevada Historical Society; Donald Hoffmann; Sally Hobby Owen; Lance Heidig,
of Cornell University Library; Patti Philippon, of the Mark Twain House and Museum,
Hartford; Steve Courtney, also of that House; Dean M. Rogers, of Vassar College
Libraries; Nancy Sherbert, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka; Henry Sweets, of the
Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, Hannibal; Eva Tucholka, of Culver Pictures;
and Mark Woodhouse, of the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College.
The enthusiasm of our sponsoring editor at UC Press, Mary C. Francis, is an inspiration
to us. We are grateful for the tireless help of Kathleen MacDougall, our highly
skilled copy editor and project manager, who contributed much to the accuracy of
the editorial matter and was a guiding hand at every stage of the production process.
Sandy Drooker has designed the book with her usual skill and sensitivity, effectively
supporting the editors’ request for a slightly larger type size than was used in Volume 1;
Sam Rosenthal has expertly supervised the printing and binding process. Alex Dahne,
publicity director at UC Press, has been our friendly, acute guide in the world of public
relations.
The Mark Twain Project’s editions are always the product of a complex and sustained
collaboration among the editors. We thank (and ought to have thanked sooner)
Richard E. Bucci, former member of the staff, for his skillful assistance in helping us
decide how to edit texts that were dictated rather than inscribed, which comprise almost
all of the Autobiography. Associate editors Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank have
contributed to every aspect of the editorial work, drawing on their more than forty
years of experience at the Project. They carried out original research for and drafted
much of the annotation, and assisted with the painstaking preparation and checking
required to produce accurate texts, apparatus, and index. The expertise and energy of
associate editors Sharon K. Goetz and Leslie Diane Myrick have been essential in many
ways. They have created technological supports that lighten the editors’ labors, and that
make possible the simultaneous digital publication of this and our other editions online
at www.marktwainproject.org. None of us would be able to carry on without the quiet
contributions of the Project’s administrative assistant, Neda Salem. On our behalf she
has handily navigated the thickets of bureaucracy, organized daily office matters, and
patiently and skillfully answered the hundreds of requests for information and copies of
documents which the Project receives from Mark Twain enthusiasts around the world.
B. G. H. E. S.
Monday, April 2, 1906
Government of new Territory of Nevada—Governor Nye
and the practical jokers—Mr. Clemens begins journalistic life
on Virginia City Enterprise—Reports legislative sessions—He
and Orion prosper—Orion builds twelve-thousand-dollar
house—Governor Nye turns
Territory of Nevada into a State.
Had Woman Ejected from White House; to be Postmaster.
Present Postmaster at Washington to be Made
Collector at Niagara—Platt Not Consulted.
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, March 31.—President Roosevelt surprised the capital this
afternoon by announcing that he would appoint Benjamin F.
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