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Mark Twain's San Francisco / edited by Bernard Taper.

by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1963.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.

xxvi, 263 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm

Over the mountains -- Menken -- Written especially for gentlemen -- How to cure a cold -- Great prize fight -- Those blasted children -- Washoe -- information wanted -- In the metropolis -- Early rising as regards excursions to the Cliff House -- Small piece of spite -- Notable conundrum -- Still further concerning that conundrum -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- Daniel in the lion's den -- and out again all right -- Important correspondence -- Further of Mr. Mark Twain's important correspondence -- How I went to the great race between Lodi and Norfolk -- Answers to correspondents -- Smith Brown-Jones -- a new contributor -- S. Browne Jones -- an astounding fraud practiced upon us -- S. Brown Jones -- full report of the proceedings upon the examination of Mark Twain on the charge of fraud, in the police court -- Earthquake almanac -- Ballad infliction -- Singular accident -- Daniel come to judgment -- "Addisonians" -- Amusements -- Benkert cometh! -- Webb's benefit -- Wretched Summerville -- Graceful compliment -- Old thing -- Pioneers ball -- "Mark Twain" overpowered -- "Christian spectator" -- More romance -- Reopening of the plaza -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Thief catching -- Caustic -- Macdougall vs. Maguire -- Editorial poem -- Christmas fireside -- Another enterprise -- Spirit of the local press -- Black hole of San Francisco -- "White man mighty onsartain" -- Mint defalcation -- Precious stones -- New Year's Day -- What have the police been doing? -- Fitz Smythe's horse -- Busted and gone abroad -- Kearny Street ghost story -- Chapman family -- Captain Montgomery -- Sabbath reflections -- "Neodamode" -- Miseries of Washoe men -- More outcroppings -- More cemeterial ghastliness -- Among the spirits -- Ministerial change -- Mark Twain a committee man -- Fashions -- Funny -- Letter from Sacramento -- San Francisco millionaire -- On California critics -- Presence of mind -- New wildcat religions -- More spiritual investigations -- Reflections on the Sabbath -- Complaint about correspondents -- Mark Twain's steed Oahu -- Sandwich Island legislature -- Moral phenomenon -- Origin of illustrious men -- Queen's arrival -- Story of a scriptural panoramist -- How, for instance? -- Mark Twain mystified -- So-long -- Mark Twain's farewell.

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