Марк Твен

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LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP

       [written about 1867]

       A FASHION ITEM

       [written about 1867]

       RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT

       A FINE OLD MAN

       SCIENCE V.S. LUCK

       [written about 1867]

       THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

       [written about 1870]

       MR. BLOKE’S ITEM

       [written about 1865]

       A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868]

       CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.

       CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS

       CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS

       CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION

       CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE

       PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT

       TO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

       A PARAGRAPH NOT ADDED TO THE PETITION

       AFTER-DINNER SPEECH

       [AT A FOURTH OF JULY GATHERING, IN LONDON, OF AMERICANS]

       LIONIZING MURDERERS

       A NEW CRIME

       LEGISLATION NEEDED

       A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.]

       CONTAINING A MORAL

       GONE TO HIS JUST REWARD’

       A TRUE STORY

       REPEATED WORD FOR WORD AS I HEARD IT—[Written about 1876]

       THE SIAMESE TWINS

       [Written about 1868.]

       SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON

       [Written about 1872.]

       A GHOST STORY

       THE CAPITOLINE VENUS

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE

       DELIVERED IN HARTFORD, AT A DINNER TO CORNELIUS WALFORD, OF LONDON

       JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK

       HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER

       [Written about 1870.]

       THE PETRIFIED MAN

       MY BLOODY MASSACRE

       THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT

       CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS

       AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN

       [Written about 1865.]

       "AFTER” JENKINS

       ABOUT BARBERS

       "PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND

       THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about