November 2 Saturday – Sam wrote from London to Mary Mason Fairbanks:

“I hunted that stag in a wagon—but I didn’t catch him. Neither did the red-coated, pigskin-breeched hunters—but it was fine to see the 250 scour over the hills & fields & sail over the hedges & fences like so many birds” [MTL 5: 205].

Sam was learning about the English:

“Please don’t let a word of this letter get into print….Americans have the reputation here of not sufficiently respecting private conversations” [MTL 5: 206].

Bills paid: Arnold, Constable & Co., New York; $29.50 for slips; Hartford Water Works $21.50 for May 1, ‘72 to Nov. 1 ‘72 @ $33 per annum [MTP].

“Mark Twain’s Pipe,” was reprinted in the Cleveland Herald Supplement from an earlier San Francisco Chronicle article (no date available) [Tenney 4].