October 18 Friday – William Dean Howells wrote to Sam about accommodations in the upcoming Yale Bi-Centennial Celebration:

You had better know what I’ve been doing. I wrote Mr. F. of your homeless state as soon as I knew it, telling him, of course, that you knew nothing of my writing, and you here see the splendid retroactive effect of my meddling.—I wanted to hear you last night, but when I found that I should have to send in to you at dinner, and start you up, with your stomach full of champagne, I lost courage. Now I see that we shall be at Yale, yet. / Yours ever… [MTHL 2: 731-2]. Note: Prof. Henry W. Farnam, chairman of the Celebration Committee. Farnam had reassured Howells that Twain had been invited some time before, to share a New Haven house that Anson Phelps Stokes had rented for a week [n1&2].