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• Correspondence

• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Correspondence

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Mark Twain's Letters, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

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• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia

• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Mark Twain as Critic (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sydney J. Krause (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Joe B. Fulton (PDF files at Ohio State)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain Journal (partial serial archives)
• Mark Twain Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life on the Mississippi (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Luotsina Mississippi-Joella: Humoristinen Kertomus (Finnish translation of part of "Life on the Mississippi"; Hämeenlinna: A. A. Karisto, 1913), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Teacher's Guide (a Big Read guide; Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, ca. 2008), by Michael Palma (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Abaelardi et Heloissae Epistolae (2 parts published in Index Lectionum in Academia Turicensi, in Latin; Zurich: Ex Officina Ulrichiana, 1841), by Peter Abelard and Héloïse, ed. by Johann Kaspar von Orelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, by Peter Abelard and Héloïse, ed. by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten, contrib. by Alexander Pope (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Abaelardi et Heloissae Epistolae (2 parts published in Index Lectionum in Academia Turicensi, in Latin; Zurich: Ex Officina Ulrichiana, 1841), by Peter Abelard and Héloïse, ed. by Johann Kaspar von Orelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, by Peter Abelard and Héloïse, ed. by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten, contrib. by Alexander Pope (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Love Sonnets of Abelard and Heloise (Hammond, IN: W. B. Conkey Co., 1907), by Peter Abelard, Héloïse, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illust. by Maximilian Fiseher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Letters of Lydia Maria Child, With a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Harriet Winslow Sewall, contrib. by John Greenleaf Whittier and Wendell Phillips (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer und Heinrich Laube im Briefwechsel: Auf Grund der Originalhandschriften Dargestellt (in German; Berlin: Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, 1917), by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and Heinrich Laube, ed. by Alexander von Weilen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Apology for The Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent Garden Theatre, Written by Herself; To Which is Annexed Her Original Letter to John Calcraft (5 volumes in 2; London: Printed for the author, 1785), by George Anne Bellamy
  • Volumes 1 and 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 3-5: multiple formats at archive.org

• Adams Papers Digital Edition, by John Adams and Abigail Adams (HTML at masshist.org)

• Adams Papers Digital Edition, by John Adams and Abigail Adams (HTML at masshist.org)

• The Original Letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, Written From Japan Between A.D. 1611 and 1617: Reprinted From the Papers of the Hakluyt Society (Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Office, 1896), by William Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Selections From the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham During the Years 1801-4 and 1806-7 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1904), by John Markham, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red Squadron, 1758-1813 (3 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1907-1911), by Charles Middleton, ed. by John Knox Laughton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters and Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B. (3 volumes, published out of order; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1898-1903), by Thomas Byam Martin, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton
  • Volume I (Before 1808): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1808-1813): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (After 1813): multiple formats at archive.org

• Letters of Edward John Trelawny (London et al.: H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910), by Edward John Trelawny, ed. by H. Buxton Forman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Family Redeemed from Bondage: Being Rev. Edmond Kelley (the Author), His Wife, and Four Children (New Bedford: The author, 1851), by Edmund Kelly (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Family Redeemed from Bondage: Being Rev. Edmond Kelley (the Author), His Wife, and Four Children (New Bedford: The author, 1851), by Edmund Kelly (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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