Selected Bibliography
from The State Historical Society of Missouri

Articles in the Missouri Historical Review [REF F550 M691]

• Armstrong, C. J. “Mark Twain’s Early Writings Discovered.” v. 24. no. 4 (July 1930), pp. 485-501. [opens in new window]
• Bidewell, George Ivan. “Mark Twain’s Florida Years.” v. 40, no. 2 (January 1946), pp. 159-173. [opens in new window]
• Boeser, Linda. “Two Comstock Journalists: Samuel L. Clemens and William L. Wright as Reporters and Authors.” v. 59, no. 4 (July 1965), pp. 428-438. [opens in new window]
• Clemens, Cyril. “The True Character of Mark Twain’s Wife.” v. 24, no. 1 (October 1929), pp. 40-49. [opens in new window]
• Clymer, Kenton J. “John Hay and Mark Twain.” v. 67, no. 3 (April 1973), pp. 397-406. [opens in new window]
• Dahl, Curtis. “Mark Twain and Ben Ely: Two Missouri Boyhoods.” v. 66, no. 4 (July 1972), pp. 549-566. [opens in new window]
• Dains, Mary K. “Thomas Hart Benton’s Huck Finn Illustrations Commemorate Mark Twain.” v. 80, no. 1 (October 1985), pp. 1-13. [opens in new window]
• Dunbar, Laverne J. “The Missouri Mark Twain Collection.” v. 19, no. 2 (January 1925), pp. 262-267. [opens in new window]
• Jones, Judy Yaeger. “Some Private Advice on Publishers: Correspondence Between Laura C. Redden and Samuel L. Clemens.” v. 93, no. 4 (July 1999), pp. 386-396. [opens in new window]
• King, Roy T. “The Mark Twain Centennial, 1835-1935.” v. 29, no. 3 (April 1935), pp. 169-174. [opens in new window]
• Mabbott, T. O. “Mark Twain’s Artillery: A Mark Twain Legend.” v. 25, no. 1 (October 1930), pp. 23-29. [opens in new window]
• Mattson, J. Stanley. “Twain’s Last Months on the Mississippi.” v. 62, no. 4 (July 1968), pp. 398-409. [opens in new window]
• Saum, Lewis O. “Colonel Donan, Mark Twain and a Campaign That Failed.” v. 87, no. 2 (January 1993), pp. 131-149.
• Shoemaker, Floyd C. “Mark Twain, America’s Most Widely Read Author.” v. 29, no. 3 (April 1935), pp. 165-168. [opens in new window]
• Smith, J. Harold. “Mark Twain’s Basic Political Concepts: Men, Parties, Democracy.” v. 59, no. 3 (April 1965), pp. 349-354. [opens in new window]
• Spehar, Warren E. “The Walter Scott: A Steamboat Ahead of Its Day.” v. 62, no. 1 (October 1967), pp. 51-52. [opens in new window]
• “Thomas Hart Benton’s Original Illustrations For Mark Twain Classics.” v. 75, no. 4 (July 1981), pp. 385-395. [opens in new window]
• “Views From the Past: Missouri Landmarks.” v. 71, no. 1 (October 1976), pp. 80-81. [opens in new window]

Articles from the Newspaper Collection

• “Hannibal’s Tribute to Samuel L. Clemens – ‘Mark Twain’ – Memorial Services Held at the Presbyterian Church Yesterday Afternoon.” Hannibal Morning Journal. April 26, 1910. p. 1. [A transcription of the memorial service in Hannibal]
• “Mark Twain.” Joplin Globe. December 19, 2005. p. 7B.
• “Mark Twain: A Sketch of the Great Missouri Humorist – His Wife – His Home – Practical Jokes.” Boonville Weekly Advertiser. April 15, 1881. p. 2, c. 1 & 2.
• “Mark Twain Dies and Whole World Expresses Grief.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 22, 1910. p. 1, c. 1; p. 4, c. 6 & 7.
• “Mark Twain’s Marriage.” Boonville Weekly Advertiser. January 10, 1879. p. 7, c. 1.
• “Samuel Langhorne Clemens ‘Mark Twain,’ Dies at Stormfield, near Redding, Conn.” Hannibal Morning Journal. April 22, 1910. p. 1, c. 1.

Books

• American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. v. 22, pp. 52-60. [REF 920 Am37 v. 22]
• Christensen, Lawrence O., William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. pp. 193-196. [REF F508 D561]
• Clemens, Clara. My Father, Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. [REF IC591 BcL2]
• Clemens, Cyril. Mark Twain for Young People. New York: Whittier Books, 1953. [REF IC591 BcL5mar]
• Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930. v. 4, pp. 192-198. [REF 920 D561 v. 4]
• Howard, Oliver, and Goldena Howard. The Mark Twain Book. Marceline, MO: Walsworth, 1985. [REF IC591 Bhowd]
• Kane, Harnett T. Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi. New York: Random House, 1966. [REF IJ K132y]
• Kirk, Connie Ann. Mark Twain: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. [REF IC591 Bkir]
• Meltzer, Milton. Mark Twain Himself; A Pictorial Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. [REF IC591 BMe 2002]
• Neider, Charles. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. [REF IC591 Bane]
• Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life. New York: Free Press, 2005. [REF IC591 Bpo2]
• Ward, Geoffrey C., Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns. Mark Twain [An Illustrated Biography]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. [REF IC591 Bwar]
• Who Was Who In America. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Co., 1942. v. 1 (1897-1942), p. 230. [REF 920 W6201 v.1]

Manuscript Collection

• Brashear, Margaret M. (1874-1963), Papers, 1868-1962 (C3393)
  This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, clippings, student papers, and articles of a professor of English at the University of Missouri. She taught classes on Mark Twain and Missouri literature and wrote several books and articles. References to Samuel Langhorne Clemens can be found throughout the collection.
• Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), Genealogy (C3133)
  Genealogy of three generations of the Clemens family, starting with John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, Samuel Clemens's parents. Also a brief biography of Mark Twain and descriptions of Florida, Missouri, and Mark Twain State Park.
• Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), Papers, 1895-1901 (C2007)
  This collection contains a poem entitled "Contract with Mrs. T. K. Beecher, Quarry Farm," written by Mark Twain on 2 July 1895. Also included is a Mark Twain circular letter to W. L. Howard from New York, 2 May 1901, regretting he could not accept a lecture engagement. An added personal note states he would have made the trip but was permanently tired of travel and hoped he had made his last journey.
• Searing, Laura Redden (1839-1923), Papers, 1846-1963 (C2290)
  http://whmc.umsystem.edu/invent/2290.html
  
  The papers of Laura Redden Searing, a poet and author whose works appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and her writings. The collection contains two letters written by Clemens, giving her publishing advice.