December 27 Monday – Sam lectured (“Savages”)  in Music Hall, New Haven, Conn. [MTL 3: 416].

Sam wrote from New Haven to Livy just before the lecture.

“I stopped two hours in Hartford today & Twichell & I bummed around together…Twelve thousand copies of the book sold this month. This is perfectly enormous. Nothing like it since Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I guess” [MTL 3: 440].

Sam left New Haven on a coastal steamer for New York City.

J.D. Slee on Anthracite Coal Association letterhead wrote from Buffalo to advise he’d reserved rooms in Buffalo for Twain. “Yours of Dec. 13th came duly to hand. … I have found you a place on one of our most pleasant streets not unreasonably far from your briefings … $20 per week” [MTP].