The Clemenses were in Budapest for Mark Twain to address the Hungarian Journalist Association. See Our Famous Guest, pages 51-59.

"The Clemens family entrained at Vienna’s Nordbahnhof early on a chilly Thursday morning, March 23, 1899. Their route took them eastward through what is now Czechoslovakia—Pressburg/Pozsony (Bratislava), Galanta, and Ersekújvár (Nové Zámky), Slovakian towns then under Hungarian rule—to some surpassingly beautiful scenery from the “Danube bend” (Duna-kanyar) opposite Visegrád and the Buda hills south to the western (Nyugati) station in Pest. They arrived at the Hotel Hungária in Pest at teatime. A note from a reporter for Magyar Hirlap, offering a 1,000-forint note “for the pleasure of a few minute’s (sic] interview with Mr. Clemens” awaited them. The interview, published the next day, had been interrupted and foreshortened, however, so Mark Twain could get to the journalists’ association banquet at eight oclock.

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The Clemenses left Budapest at eight o’clock on the evening of March 29, 1899, from the city’s eastern (Keleti) station, returning to Vienna in a wagon-lit Carriage “put at their disposal by Hungarian Railroads,” certainly a mark of unusual distinction. After examining all the newspaper reports and the literary journals, Anna Katona concluded that, although Mark Twain’s Budapest sojourn was a popular success, it would have been an even greater one had his audience, especially the Hungarian journalists, been more fluent in English and if the latter had been less stuffy and pecksniffish."