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April 12 Monday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Mary Mason Fairbanks and sent her comic characterizations (from Ch. 23 of Innocents Abroad) of several saints “by the old masters” [MTL 3: 190-2]. The Langdon’s dinner guests that night probably included Anna E. Dickinson (1842-1932), celebrated reformer [MTL 3: 192n2].

Sam also wrote Elisha Bliss saying the “Old Masters” pictures he’d sent copies of to Mrs. Fairbanks were “the very funniest pictures” [MTL 3: 192].

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