"Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39)
"The white town, drowsing ..." (1839)
Of words and the Word (1840-42)
The Hannibal decade (1843-53)
"So far from home ..." (1853-56)
The language of water (1856-58)
A journalistic counterculture (1862-63)
"Mark Twain-more of him" (1863)
A villainous backwoods, sketch (1864-65)
" ... and I began to talk" (1865-66)
Pilgrims and sinners (1867)
In the thrall of Mother Bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)
"A work humorously inclined ..." (February-July 1868)
The girl in the miniature (July 1868-October 1868)
American vandal (October-December 1868)
"Quite worthy of the best" (1869)
"My hated nom de plume ..." (1871)
The lion of London (1872-73)
Quarry Farm and Nook Farm (1874-75)
The man in the moon (1875)
"It befell yt one did breake wind ..." (1876)
"A personal hatred for humbug" (1880)
"A powerful good time" (1881-82)
"All right, then ..." (1882-83)
The American novel (1884-85)
Roll over, Lord Byron (1886-87)
"I have fed so full on sorrows ..." (1887-90)
"We are skimming along like paupers ..." (1891-June 1893)
Exile and return (1896-1900)
Sitting in darkness (1900-1905).