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Appendix C: The Editions and the Chronology of Composition Clemens' comment, "In this autobiography it is my purpose to wander whenever I please and come back when I get ready" (MTA 2:128), focuses on his haphazard process and on his desire to present material in the order in which it was composed. But it is clear that Clemens himself violated that rule when preparing the chapters for the North American Review and, ironically, that Paine seems to be the only editor who attempted to publish the materials in the order in which they were composed. What follows is a list of materials as they have been used in the four editions of the autobiography: "Chapters from My Autobiography" (NAR), Paine's Mark Twains Autobiography (MTA), DeVotds Mark Twain in Eruption (MTE), and Neider's The Autobiography of Mark Twain (AMT). The material is identified by name or date wherever possible, to give an idea of the sequence imposed on the variety of written fragments and dictations. NAR MTA MTP AMTb 3/26/06 Tennessee Land Roosevelt Early Years Early Days Early Years 7/16/08 Early Days Playing "Bear" The Grant Dictations 1lI1107 Tennessee Land Herrings The Machine Episode 10/18/07 Jane Lampton Clemens Florence Dictations Early Days 10/21/07 Playing "Bear" 2/1/06 Jane Lampton Clemens 9/7/07 Herrings 2/2/06 Playing "Bear" 5/29/07 Jim Wolf and the Cats 2/5/06 Herrings 5/30/07 Jim Wolf and the Wasps "Headings in bold type in this column indicate the categories DeVoto used to separate the materials. bNeider's edition does not identify material by the dates of composition. Many of the dates he gives serve as markers for a series of dictations which cover similar material. This list presents clearly identifiable materials or those which Neider identifies in the notes in his text. Neider's text, of course, offers a great deal more than what is identified here: he included text from the North American Review, the early fragments and dictations, and some 30,000 words which had not appeared in any other edition. 255 256 Appendix C NAR MTA MTE AMT 2/7/06 Jim Wolf and the Cats 7/14/08 12/26/06 2/8/06 Macfarlane 4/3/06 3/8/06 2/9/06 Old Lecture Days 9/12/08 7/30/06 2/12/06 Ralph Keeler Carnegie 8/31106 2/26/06 Beauties of the German 8/11/06 3/23/06 3/7/06 Language 12/2/07 3/29/06 3/22/06 A Viennese Procession 12/10/07 3/26/06 3/5/06 Comment on Tautology Plutocracy 10/12/06 3/6/06 and Grammar 12/13/06 5/26/07 3/23/06 Private History of a MS 1115/07 4/11/06 1119/06 that Came to Grief 1128/07 2/1106 12/13/06 Villa Quarto 2/16/06 4/5/06 12/1/06 A Memory of John Hay 1130/07 4/6/06 12/2/06 Notes on "Innocents 3/20/06 5/26/06 3/28/06 Abroad" 1130/07 Henry H. Rogers 3/28/06 Stevenson, Aldrich, etc. 5/21108 8/30/06 7/3/08 Henry H. Rogers Hannibal Days 7/31106 4/5/06 Henry H. Rogers (1909) 8/15/06 2/7/06 Florence dictations 119/06 11130/06 8/11/06 Early Days 1110/06 12/1106 Stevenson, Aldrich, etc. 12/6/06 1112/06 12/2/06 2/4/07 12/17/06 1113/06 12/3/06 Villa Quarto 2/10/07 1115/06 10/16/06 6/4/06 2/12/07 1116/06 10/30/06 5/23/07 1117/06 1117/06 Two Halos 1113/08 10/8/06 1118/06 5/21106 7/3/08 1122/07 1119/06 5/23/06 The Death of Jean 1112/05 1123/06 5/24/06 10/15/06 1124/06 5/26/06 Jim Wolf and the 2/1106 5/28/06 Cats 2/2/06 5/29/06 12/21106 2/5/06 6/1106 3/28/07 2/6/06 6/2/06 12/22/06 2/7/06 In a Workshop 11119/06 2/8/06 8/30/06 11130/06 2/9/06 7/31106 9/5/06 2/12/06 12/5/06 Florence dictations 2/13/06 10/10/07 1123/07 2/14/06 9/10/06...

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