April 16 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “3 p.m. Vecchio / Be at via Strozzi 2 at 2.50” [NB 47 TS 9].
The New York Times, p. BR260, ran a short review of Mark Twain’s latest book:
The Humorists.
Mark Twain’s “Extracts from Adam’s Diary” (Harper’s) is a revised and improved version of one of his earlier flights of humorous fancy. There are only 89 pages of large print in the little book, not counting the pages devoted by Mr. Strohmann’s droll illustrations. Probably the first entry in this diary is as good in its way as anything else Mark Twain ever wrote:
Monday—This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals.
Cloudy to-day, wind in the east; think we shall have rain. *** We? Where did I get that word? I remember now—the new creature uses it.