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Dedication

 Contents

Foreword


Boy’s Manuscript


Letter to William Bowen


Tupperville-Dobbsville


Clairvoyant


Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians


Jane Lampton Clemens


 Villagers of 1840–3


Hellfire Hotchkiss


Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy


Schoolhouse Hill


Huck Finn

 Explanatory Notes

 Biographical Directory

References

 Note on the Text

[begin page 98] Jim Lampton. A popular beau, like the other. Good fellow, very handsome, full of life. Young doctor without practice, poor, but good family and considered a good catch. Captured by the arts of Ella Hunter, a loud vulgar beauty from a neighboring town—one of the earliest chipper and self-satisfied and idiotic correspondents of the back-country newspapers—an early [Kate Field]. Moved to St Louis. Steamboat agent. Young Dr. John McDowell boarded with them; followed them from house to house; an arrant scandal to everybody with eyes—but Jim hadn’t any, and believed in the loyalty of both of them. God took him at last, the only good luck he ever had after he met Ella. Left a red-headed daughter, Kate. Doctor John and Ella continued together.

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Mark Twain made these notes about the people of Hannibal, Missouri, in late July or early August 1897, during a summer stay in Weggis, Switzerland. Hannibal, on the Mississippi River, had barely a thousand inhabitants when Clemens’s family settled there in November 1839, a few weeks before his fourth birthday.

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98.6 Kate Field] Mary Katherine Keemle (Kate) Field (1838–96), a journalist, author, and lecturer who gained considerable popularity as a New York Tribune correspondent from Boston, London, and elsewhere.

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