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31 July 2026
- 12:0012:00, 31 July 2026 diff hist +72 Statistics No edit summary current
- 07:5407:54, 31 July 2026 diff hist +11 N Samuel Langhorne Clemens Created page with "coming soon" current
- 07:5207:52, 31 July 2026 diff hist +51 Presentation No edit summary current
30 July 2026
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- 18:4518:45, 30 July 2026 diff hist +209 N Presentation Created page with "* Matrix[https://matrix.msu.edu] * Malian Photography Project[https://amp.matrix.msu.edu] * Quilt Index[https://quiltindex.org] * Enslaved.org[https://enslaved.org] *Mark Twain Day by Day — Corpus Statistics"
- 18:3818:38, 30 July 2026 diff hist +19 Main Page →Table of Contents current
24 July 2026
- 14:0114:01, 24 July 2026 diff hist +337,510 People Attributes No edit summary current
- 13:5913:59, 24 July 2026 diff hist +19,268 N People Attributes and Sub-Attributes Created page with "= Mark Twain Day by Day - Top Figures: Relationship Attributes (first pass) = A first-pass assignment of relationship attributes and sub-attributes to the 110 most-mentioned figures, using the People Relationship Attributes vocabulary. Attributes are given only where there is evidence; unidentified or ambiguous names are left blank and flagged. The Confidence column marks every guess, ambiguous label, garbled name, and duplicate row. Sortable. List is of the most mentio..." current
- 13:5913:59, 24 July 2026 diff hist −717 People No edit summary current
- 13:5713:57, 24 July 2026 diff hist +57 People No edit summary
- 10:0910:09, 24 July 2026 diff hist +52 People Attributes No edit summary
- 10:0610:06, 24 July 2026 diff hist +19,216 N People Attributes Created page with "= Mark Twain Day by Day - Top Figures: Relationship Attributes (first pass) = A first-pass assignment of relationship attributes and sub-attributes to the 110 most-mentioned figures, using the People Relationship Attributes vocabulary. Attributes are given only where there is evidence; unidentified or ambiguous names are left blank and flagged. The Confidence column marks every guess, ambiguous label, garbled name, and duplicate row. Sortable. {| class="wikitable sorta..."
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23 July 2026
- 10:2610:26, 23 July 2026 diff hist +175 People →Relationship Type
- 09:5309:53, 23 July 2026 diff hist −7 Rogers, Henry Huttleston No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 23 July 2026 diff hist −7 Clemens, Olivia Langdon No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 23 July 2026 diff hist +173,971 N Publication Lists Created page with "= Mark Twain Day by Day — Publications = All 1,066 publications in the catalog: the 36 major works of the Twain canon (with title variants) plus titled pieces from the publications early-journalism inventory, with byline/pseudonym, first-publication date, and Day by Day mention counts. Click any column header to sort. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! pub_id !! Title !! Title Variants !! Byline / Pseudonym !! First Publication Date !! Source !! Canon !! data-sort-ty..." current
- 08:2208:22, 23 July 2026 diff hist +487,389 N Mentioned places Created page with "= Mark Twain Day by Day — Places (All) = All places associated with Mark Twain's life: 2,190 geolocated places from B. Scott Holmes's Twain's Geographies gazetteer (with map links and Day by Day mention counts) plus places found in the chronicle but not yet in the gazetteer. Click any column header to sort. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! place_id !! Place !! Category !! Location !! data-sort-type="number" | Mentions !! Source !! Confidence !! twainsgeography |- |..." current
- 08:2108:21, 23 July 2026 diff hist −64 Places →Places Lists current
- 08:1708:17, 23 July 2026 diff hist −95 Corporate Bodies No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 23 July 2026 diff hist +508,926 N Corporate Bodies List Created page with "= Mark Twain Day by Day — Corporate Bodies (All) = All 2,848 confirmed corporate bodies (businesses, publishers, clubs, churches, banks, schools, libraries, theaters, government bodies, transportation lines) extracted from the chronicle and the SNAC authority seed, with type, scope, associated place, name variants, dated mention count, and founding/dissolution years and Wikipedia links where verified. Click any column header to sort. {| class="wikitable sortable" |-..." current
22 July 2026
- 17:5717:57, 22 July 2026 diff hist +777 N End of year, 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: End of year, 1855 Entry: Sam probably left Orion’s employ late in the year to set type across the river in Warsaw, Illinois [''MTL 1'': 59]. Powers claims that “Sam blew up over phantom wages and quit.” Either it was temporary employment or Sam regretted the move, because he was back in Keokuk in the New Year [Powers, ''MT A Life'' 70]. After the birth of his daughter, Orion took on the compiling of Keokuk’s first city directory, leaving the rest of..." current
- 17:5617:56, 22 July 2026 diff hist +156 N November 30, 1855 (Friday) Created page with "ntry Date: November 30, 1855 (Friday) Entry: Sam’s twentieth birthday. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens" current
- 17:5617:56, 22 July 2026 diff hist +303 N November 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: November 1855 Entry: Sam’s uncle John Quarles freed his slave, Uncle Daniel, age 50 [Rasmussen 106]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens * John Quarles * Uncle Daniel * ---- 2) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * Rasmussen 106" current
- 17:5517:55, 22 July 2026 diff hist +383 N September 14, 1855 (Friday) Created page with "Entry Date: September 14, 1855 (Friday) Entry: Sam became an uncle for the second time with the birth of Jennie Clemens to Orion and Mollie Clemens [''MTL 1'': 383]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens * Jennie Clemens * Orion Clemens * Mary Eleanor Clemens * ---- 2) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * MTL 1 : 383" current
- 17:5517:55, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,660 N July 16, 1855 (Monday) Created page with "Entry Date: July 16, 1855 (Monday) Entry: From Sam’s notebook: <blockquote>“Florida, Mo., 16 July, 55:—Introduced to Miss Jule Violett, Miss Em Tandy, and Miss Em Young” </blockquote> These three young ladies, 16, 17 and 19 years of age respectively, were residents of '''Florida, Mo.'''. '''Emily''' G. Young’s older sister, Sarah, married Benjamin Quarles, oldest son of Sam’s uncle John Quarles [''MTNJ 1'': 34n37]. From the same day in his notebook: “..." current
- 17:5417:54, 22 July 2026 diff hist +2,034 N July, mid 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: July, mid 1855 Entry: Sam visited Hannibal and traveled to the villages of Paris and Florida to provide care and dispose of family property. In Florida he visited his uncle John Quarles, who had sold the old Quarles <blockquote><u>1855</u> 41 </blockquote> Farm. He then continued down river to St. Louis, where he tried to become a Mississippi River cub pilot. Orion had supplied Sam with a letter of introduction to their wealthy cousin, James Clemens, Jr. S..." current
- 17:5317:53, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,213 N June 29, 1855 (Friday) Created page with "Entry Date: June 29, 1855 (Friday) Entry: The Keokuk ''Dispatch'' described a man believed by the MTP editors to be Sam: <blockquote>We know a man in this city who would make a ''prime editor,'' and we believe that if he has any “genius” at all, it runs in that direction, “ ‘cos” he says there is not a ''single'' paper published in town worth reading—and he says that not one of them has any news—and if he published a paper, he says he would ''make news,''..." current
- 17:5217:52, 22 July 2026 diff hist +608 N June 27, 1855 (Wednesday) Created page with "Entry Date: June 27, 1855 (Wednesday) Entry: From Sam’s notebook: <blockquote>“ …sent out to wash the following: 1 pair heavy Pants; 1 ‘ light do; 4 white Shirts; 4 ’ collars; 2 pair white cotton Socks; 1 summer cravat; 2 white Handkerchiefs; 1 pair twilled Drawers; 1 linen summer Coat/17 [x]. 6/102” [''MTNJ 1'': 35]. </blockquote> <blockquote>Note: Sam used semicolons in a laundry list! He was a printer. He also loved semicolons. </blockquote> Author: Dav..." current
- 17:5117:51, 22 July 2026 diff hist +381 N June 16, 1855 (Saturday) Created page with "Entry Date: June 16, 1855 (Saturday) Entry: Sam’s name appeared in a list of unclaimed letters in St. Louis, indicating he had left the city by this date [''MTL 1'': 58]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Places Mentioned: * St. Louis, Missouri ---- 3) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * MTL 1 : 58" current
- 17:5117:51, 22 July 2026 diff hist +443 N June, mid 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: June, mid 1855 Entry: Sam left St. Louis for Keokuk, Iowa, two hundred miles away [''MTL 1'': 58]. The town had a population of 6,500. Sam was nineteen and had already lived in quite a few places. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Places Mentioned: * St. Louis, Missouri * Keokuk, Iowa ---- 3) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * MTL 1 : 58" current
- 17:5017:50, 22 July 2026 diff hist +422 N June 11, 1855 (Monday) Created page with "Entry Date: June 11, 1855 (Monday) Entry: Orion became the new owner of the Ben Franklin Book and Job Office printers [''MTL 1'': 58]. Selby writes that Orion “took possession” this day [6]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Orion Clemens * Selby * ---- 2) Corporate Bodies Mentioned: * Ben Franklin Book and Job Office * ---- 3) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * MTL 1 : 58" current
- 17:5017:50, 22 July 2026 diff hist −424 June 9, 1855 (Saturday) No edit summary current
- 17:4917:49, 22 July 2026 diff hist +834 N June 9, 1855 (Saturday) Created page with "Entry Date: June 9, 1855 (Saturday) Entry: Orion and Mollie moved to Keokuk, Iowa [''MTL 1'': 58]. Powers says this move took place “around the end of March 1855” [''MT A Life'' 69]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Orion Clemens * Mollie Clemens ---- 2) Places Mentioned: * Keokuk, Iowa ---- 3) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * MT A Life 69 * MTL 1 : 58 Entry Date: June 11, 1855 (Monday) Entry: Orion became the new..."
- 17:4917:49, 22 July 2026 diff hist +857 N June 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: June 1855 Entry: <u>July</u> – Forty-nine of Sam’s notebooks survive, and the first notebook was from this period. It holds random entries on important and trivial matters, interspersed with information on phrenology, French lessons, and chess lessons. There were also entries relating to family business, a theological controversy, and laundry lists. Entries were first made in St. Louis, then in Keokuk, Iowa, and later during a trip to the villages of Han..." current
- 17:4917:49, 22 July 2026 diff hist −859 Mid 1855, 1855 No edit summary current
- 17:4817:48, 22 July 2026 diff hist +410 N June, early 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: June, early 1855 Entry: '''Orion''' sold his interest in the Muscatine ''Journal'' to '''James W. Logan''' [''MTL 1'': 58]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Orion Clemens * James Logan ---- 2) Corporate Bodies Mentioned: * Muscatine Journal * ---- 3) Places Mentioned: * Muscatine, Iowa ---- 4) Publications Mentioned: c) References: * MTL 1 : 58" current
- 17:4717:47, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,258 N Mid 1855, 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: Mid 1855, 1855 Entry: <u>late 1856</u> – Sam wrote a sketch titled, “Jul’us Caesar” that remained unpublished. Branch puts the date in this period [''ET&S 1'': 110]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Publications Mentioned: a) Samuel Clemens' Publications Mentioned: * Jul'us Caesar * c) References: * ET&S 1 : 110 Entry Date: June 1855 Entry: <u>July</u> – Forty-nine of Sam’s notebo..."
- 17:4717:47, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,226 N March 14, 1855 (Wednesday) Created page with "Entry Date: March 14, 1855 (Wednesday) Entry: Sam’s letter of Mar. 5 ran in the Muscatine ''Tri-Weekly Journal.'' 40 <u>'1855'</u> <blockquote>The examination of witnesses in the O'Blennis murder case will be concluded to-night. The excitement which this tragedy created has subsided, but the people are till anxious to know how the trial will terminate—though, to tell the truth, few expect justice to be done. I doubt if there are a hundred people in St. Louis that..." current
- 17:4617:46, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,360 N March 12, 1855 (Monday) Created page with "Entry Date: March 12, 1855 (Monday) Entry: Sam’s letter of '''Mar. 1''' ran in the Muscatine ''Tri-Weekly Journal'' as a featured article, “Special Correspondence.” Sam wrote about the killing of '''Benjamin Brand,''' Deputy Marshall''',''' by '''Bob O’Blennis''', a wealthy gambler and livery-stable owner. <blockquote>Bob O’Blennis has long been celebrated as the most abandoned and reckless outlaw in St. Louis—and but for his money, would have been roasting..." current
- 17:4617:46, 22 July 2026 diff hist +713 N March 9, 1855 (Friday) Created page with "Entry Date: March 9, 1855 (Friday) Entry: Sam’s letter dated Feb. 24 from St. Louis ran on page 2 of the Muscatine ''Tri-Weekly Journal'' [Branch, “Three New Letters” 4]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Corporate Bodies Mentioned: * Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal * ---- 3) Places Mentioned: * St. Louis, Missouri * Muscatine, Iowa ---- 4) Publications Mentioned: a) Samuel Cl..." current
- 17:4517:45, 22 July 2026 diff hist +489 N March 5, 1855 (Monday) Created page with "March 5, 1855 (Monday) Entry: Sam dated another letter from St. Louis to the ''Tri-Weekly Journal'' [''MTL 1'': 54]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Corporate Bodies Mentioned: * Tri-Weekly Journal * ---- 3) Places Mentioned: * St. Louis, Missouri ---- 4) Publications Mentioned: a) Samuel Clemens' Publications Mentioned: * Letter to the Tri-Weekly Journal, March 5, 1855 * c) References:..." current
- 17:4417:44, 22 July 2026 diff hist +559 N March 1, 1855 (Thursday) Created page with "Entry Date: March 1, 1855 (Thursday) Entry: Sam dated a letter from St. Louis to the Muscatine ''Tri-Weekly Journal'' [''MTL 1'': 54]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Corporate Bodies Mentioned: * Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal * ---- 3) Places Mentioned: * St. Louis, Missouri * Muscatine, Iowa ---- 4) Publications Mentioned: a) Samuel Clemens' Publications Mentioned: * Letter..." current
- 17:4317:43, 22 July 2026 diff hist +561 N February 28, 1855 (Wednesday) Created page with "Entry Date: February 28, 1855 (Wednesday) Entry: Sam’s letter of Feb. 16 ran in the Muscatine ''Journal'' [''MTL 1'': 46]. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens ---- 2) Corporate Bodies Mentioned: * Muscatine Journal * ---- 3) Places Mentioned: * Muscatine, Iowa ---- 4) Publications Mentioned: a) Samuel Clemens' Publications Mentioned: * [[Letter of Feb. 16 [to Muscatine Journal]]] * b) Primary Sources..." current
- 17:4317:43, 22 July 2026 diff hist +987 N February 24, 1855 Created page with "Entry Date: February 24, 1855 Entry: <u>'''26 Monday'''</u>– In '''St. Louis,''' Sam dated a letter to the Muscatine ''Journal'' and summarized '''St. Louis''' news, including the new route for St. Louis mail west—it would no longer go to New York first. He also related massacres by Indians in '''New Mexico'''. Though progressive beyond his time on racial matters, Sam didn’t care much for Indians. The letter ran on '''Mar. 9''' [''MTL 1'': 50-51]. Author: David H..." current
- 17:4217:42, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,887 N February 13, 1855 (Tuesday) Created page with " Entry Date: February 13, 1855 (Tuesday) Entry: Sam was once more in '''St. Louis''', back at his former job at the ''Evening News''. Sam lived during this period with the '''Pavey family''' [See also ''MTNJ 1'': 37n45]. He attended a play, ''The Merchant of Venice'', put on by the '''Thespian Society'''. Sam wrote on '''Feb. 16''': “I had always thought that this was a comedy, until they made a ''farce'' of it” [''MTL 1'': 48n8]. <u>February 15 Thursday</u> –Sa..." current
- 17:2517:25, 22 July 2026 diff hist +5 N December 19, 1854 (Tuesday) Created page with "Check" current
- 17:2417:24, 22 July 2026 diff hist +620 N November 30, 1854 (Thursday) Created page with "Entry Date: November 30, 1854 (Thursday) Entry: Sam’s nineteenth birthday. 38 <u>'1854'</u> Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mentioned: * Samuel Langhorne Clemens Entry Date: December 19, 1854 (Tuesday) Entry: Orion Clemens married Mary Eleanor (Mollie) Stotts, in Keokuk, Iowa. Orion was visiting there. They left the next morning for Muscatine, but when she became homesick, Orion moved them back to Keokuk. Author: David H. Fears ---- 1) People Mention..." current
- 17:2317:23, 22 July 2026 diff hist +1,674 N September 1, 1854 (Friday) (ca.) Created page with "Entry Date: September 1, 1854 (Friday) (ca.) Entry: In the first entry for Sept., 1854, Francis Jackson of Boston Massachusetts’ Anti-Slavery Society, made this entry: <blockquote>“Samuel Clemens passage from Missouri Penetentiary [''sic''] to Boston—he having been imprisoned there two years for aiding fugitives to escape…$24.50” [Sattelmeyer 294]. </blockquote> <blockquote>Note: In “Did Sam Clemens Take the Abolitionists for a Ride?” Sattelmeyer specula..." current