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June 21 Sunday – Sam wrote from Elmira to William Dean Howells. Sam sent compliments on Howells’ third novel, A Foregone Conclusion, which appeared in the July Atlantic Monthly.

“The new baby is a gaudy thing & the mother is already sitting up” [MTL 6: 165].

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Links to Twain's Geography Entries
Elmira, Hartford and England: Day By Day
Elmira in 1874: Day By Day
DBD: Elmira, 1874

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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