October 9 Friday – In their winter quarters at 7 Körnerstrasse, Berlin,
Osnabruck, Oct. 28. — The seventieth anniversary of the birthday of Rudolph Virchow. Sam’s version of events from his sixth Europe letter for McClure’s Syndicate, entitled, “German Chicago”:
December 18 Friday – Sam left Berlin with William Phelps and traveled 125 miles south to Dresden
December 19 Saturday – Sam may have stayed overnight in Dresden or returned late Dec. 18.
December 31 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: The family arrived in their quarters at the Hotel Royal 1.30 p.m.
According to Paine, the Clemens family “stuck it out” at Körnerstrasse:
“till the end of December — about two months. Then they made such settlement with the agent as they could — that is to say, they paid the rest of their year’s rent — and established themselves in a handsome apartment at the Hotel Royal, Unter den Linden. There was no need to be ashamed of this address, for it was one of the best in Berlin” [MTB 931].
A. Hoffman gives another reason for the move:
“Once word spread through the city that Mark Twain had located in Berlin, cultural leaders invited him to every event, but because they were living in a dismal neighborhood, the Clemenses felt they could not reciprocate the hospitality” [373].
January 4 Monday – Sam and Livy left the girls with Sue Crane at the Hotel Royal and traveled to Ilsenburg, Germany in the Hartz Mountains
January 10 Sunday – or January 12 Tuesday – The Clemenses left Ilsenburg for Berlin [NB 31 TS 21]. At the Hotel Royal,
February 29 Monday – Sam and Livy left the children to their studies in Berlin for the sunnier climes of the French Riviera and a three week rest to regain their health. According to Sam’s Feb. 26 to McClure, they took “3 or 4 days” to arrive, or by Mar. 3 or 4. The distance is nearly a thousand miles from Berlin to the Riviera, so they undoubtedly rested one or two nights along the way [Feb. 26 to McClure; Mar. 21 to Moffett]