The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Literature) (66 page)

Tell me my fortune for one day ahead-& Sep's for life. Did it.

Stoning the Jews. (passing remark)

Disease-germs. (Plague)

The make is a large part, & cannot be changed-from rabbit to tiger.

Seawonhake & Stella. Dana & chambermaid. The one's manliness
was theory unsolidified by experience-& barren.

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I

A Nobility. A

Let us make a trip into the future & see what they've got.

Civ. has advanced in many ways & you must grant that the nobility
have assisted by notice & encouragement? No. They have never
helped in any progress. Nor the priest. (religion). The church the
aristocracy & the King stand for obstruction-they chock the wheels whenever they can. Progress moves in spite of them-then you lickspittle slaves get down on your knees & give them the praisejust as you do God for mercies never received.

Aristocracies are bred from villainies & whores.

Group C

These notes, in pencil, are on five consecutively numbered half-sheets of lightweight ochre stock, 71%6" by 41%6", with vertical chain-lines 1 %8" apart. Mark Twain was reviewing pp. 1-85 of the manuscript; the numbers in the notes refer to manuscript pages. He may have written these notes just before his resumption of work in the summer of 1900.'
Additions in ink have been rendered in boldface type.

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Date, 1702.

Eseldorf, the village.

Gretel Marx, the dairyman's widow.

Prince Konigsberg.

Young princess Adelheid his daugh, (22) 18.

prince Adelbert, 17 ignorant & insolent.

The Hussite Woman Adler

Father Adolf, the villain; belonged to the village Council & lorded it there, he is called "Town Bull" & "Hell's Delight" privately. Drunken & witty blackguard. Sings in a thundering bass "We'll sing the wine-cup & the lass." Swears "by God" & generally. profane words.

A No fear of the Devil-celebrated for it A

Church of Our Lady of the Dumb Creatures

They try to bum the Hussite Adler as a witch; Satan enters into
her & the fires do him no harm. [circled in pencil]

Box-Gottfried Nan [added diagonally across the beginning of
the entry above]

The village is solemnly deeded to the Virgin & she collects the
taxes to a farthing. [circled in pencil]

Make an incident of Host & Suicide (11) Satan enters into the
suicide & walks away

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with the stake through him. [circled in pencil]

Make incident of plague-procession [halfcircled in pencil]
(12.)

The Interdict [circled in pencil]

The Dev. is always assuaged Dec. 9 (12)

14. One pilgrim to Rome got 14,000 years' for climbing steps of
St. John Lateran on his knees, & came back & sold out in detail, 500
years at a time, & got rich.

Father Peter, village priest.

Marget, his niece-18.

Bishop Aloysius. (old fool)

21. Peter out 2 yrs-Adolf has his flock

Wilhelm Meidling, lawyer & M's sweetheart

22. Solomon Isaacs the creditor

THE 3 BOYS:

' It is not clear whether Mark Twain meant "Rupert" and "Marie" which are
interlined above "Baumann" and "son of judge" to be separate entries or alternative readings.

Seppi Wohlmever bright son of "Golden Stag"
& I, Theordor Fischer, son of organist
&c &c &c.

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