November 4 Sunday – The Clemenses visited with the Laurence Huttons in Princeton, N.J..

William Dean Howells, nearby at 115 E.16th Street, wrote to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, remarking on how good Clemens looked:

Clemens is here, settled down for the winter in West 10th st., and looking younger and jollier than I’ve seen him for ten years. He says it is all Plasmon, a new German food-drug he’s been taking, but I think it’s partly prosperity. He has distinctly the air of a man who has unloaded. He has his family all with him, and Mrs. Clemens is fully sharing his effect of renewed youth [MTHL 2: 723].