November 11 Sunday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote a postcard to Robert Underwood Johnson of Century Magazine.

“You’d much better come here—to-morrow before 12 noon—my den is sacred from interruption from 10.30 till 12 daily. But if you can’t, I’ll look in at the Century during the week” [MTP].

The New York Journal and Advertiser, ran an interview with Mark Twain, p. 18, titled, “A Day with Mark Twain / Funniest Man in the World / Pictorially Told by Vivid Snap Shots at America’s Famous Humorist” [MTCI 370-74]. Note: the interview was reprinted in the Nov. 25 S.F. Examiner.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch played a Tschaikowski Concerto with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosh at Carnegie Hall. Clara Clemens and family with some friends took in the performance in a private box. Gabrilowitsch, who would marry Clara in 1909 after a couple of broken engagements, was beginning an American tour [My Husband Gabrilowitsch by Clara Clemens, Harper & Brothers 1938, p.11].