March 1 Monday – Sam gave his “Vandals” lecture at Concert Hall in Geneseo, New York [MTPO].
Sam wrote from Rochester, NY to Livy:
Half a dozen young gentlemen 20 to 25 years of age, received me at the depot with a handsome open sleigh, & drove me to the hotel in style—& then took possession of my room, & invited a dozen more in, & ordered cigars, & made themselves entirely happy & contented. But they were hard to entertain, for they took me for a lion, & I had to carry the bulk of the conversation myself . . . Then I rose & said, “Boys, I shall have to bid you a good-afternoon, for I am stupid & sleepy—& you must pardon my bluntness but I must go to bed.” Poor fellows, they were stricken speechless . . . I undressed & went to bed, & tried to go to sleep—but again & again my conscience smote me—again & again I thought of how mean & how shameful a return I had made for their well-meant & whole-hearted friendliness to me a stranger within their gates . . . And then I said to myself, I’ll make amends for this —& so got up & dressed & gave the boys all of my time till midnight—& also from this noon till I left at four this afternoon. And so, if any man is thoroughly popular with the young people of Geneseo today, it is I. We had a full house last night, & a fine success [MTLL 73-4; MTL 3: 130; The Twainian, Nov-Dec. 1961]. 

Sam also noted he’d been reading Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, and offered to censor it for Livy:
“If you would like to read it…I will mark it & tear it until it is fit for your eyes—for portions of it are very coarse & indelicate” [MTLL 76].