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August 17 Thursday  Sam wrote from Hartford to Horace Greeley, asking him to confirm or deny the famous Hank Monk story about the hair-raising stagecoach ride Monk supposedly gave Greeley. This anecdote is in chapter 20 of Roughing It. A reply from Greeley to this letter was lost, but at the end of this chapter Sam wrote with asterisk: “And what makes this worn anecdote the more aggravating is that the adventure it celebrates never occurred.”

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.   

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