Marse Henry: An Autobiography (Volume 1)

Henry Watterson (About 1908)
To My Friend Alexander Konta With Affectionate Salutation
Mansfield, 1919
A mound of earth a little higher graded: Perhaps upon a stone a chiselled name: A dab of printer's ink soon blurred and faded-- And then oblivion--that--that is fame!
--Henry Watterson
I Am Born and Begin to Take Notice--John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson--James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce--Jack Dade and Beau Hickman --Old Times in Washington
Slavery the Trouble-Maker--Break-Up of the Whig Party and Rise of the Republican--The Key--Sickle's Tragedy--Brooks and Sumner--Life at Washington in the Fifties
The Inauguration of Lincoln--I Quit Washington and Return to Tennessee--A Run-a-bout with Forest--Through the Federal Lines and a Dangerous Adventure--Good Luck at Memphis
I Go to London--Am Introduced to a Notable Set--Huxley, Spencer, Mill and Tyndall--Artemus Ward Comes to Town--The Savage Club
Mark Twain--The Original of Colonel Mulberry Sellers--The Earl of Durham --Some Noctes Ambrosianæ--A Joke on Murat Halstead
Houston and Wigfall of Texas--Stephen A. Douglas--The Twaddle about Puritans and Cavaliers--Andrew Johnson and John C. Breckenridge
An Old Newspaper Rookery--Reactionary Sectionalism in Cincinnati and Louisville-- The Courier-Journal