Fact · Dictation
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Twain began almost daily dictations to a stenographer in January 1906.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“He broke this pattern in January 1906 when he began almost daily dictations to a stenographer.”
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Explanatory Notes and Introduction, Mark Twain Project, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Mark Twain Project, 2010, Introduction, on the start of the autobiographical dictations.
Open the original- What it measures
- The dictations became the bulk of the Autobiography of Mark Twain.
- What it does not show
- The date is from the editors' introduction. The end date of the dictations is given differently in other accounts, so it is not used here.