May 14 Saturday – The Italian Gazette of May 17 reported:
Mr. S.L. Clemens was the honored guest of the Ponte Vecchio Club at the usual Saturday dinner last week…“Mark Twain”…proceeded to tell an excellent story of how he drove an unwilling man into matrimony [“Wapping Alice”; quoted in Hill, p.83; See Keene’s letter of Apr. 28 about this club].
Sam’s notebook: “Artist dinner about 7” [NB 47 TS 11]. Note: the above gathering; Keene’s letter of Apr. 28 mentions Mr. Rolshoven in connection with the club.
Harper’s Weekly ran an anonymous interview reprinted in James McArthur’s “Books and Bookmen,” p.
Tenney: “Describes MT’s appearance and quotes his views on copyright and Christian Science; photograph: ‘Mark Twain in the Garden of the Villa de Quarto, near Florence.’ Followed by James McArthur’s brief, uncritical description of Adam’s Diary [39].