October 5 Monday – From Twichell’s diaries:

“Reached home after vacation and a trip of 7 weeks to Peru and the W. Coast of South America (with Yung Wing) M.T. met me at the depot” [Yale, copy at MTP].

Note: Joseph Twichell was active in the Hartford Chinese Educational Mission. He would lecture several times on Peru and South America. Dr. E.W. Kellogg accompanied Joe and Yung Wing. The purpose of the trip was to check on living conditions of Chinese coolies in that country. (Joe did not go there with dreams of a coca fortune.) Conditions were bad, which prompted Joe upon his return to give many talks without pay on the situation, and to champion Chinese students at the Hartford educational mission.

In Cambridge, Mass., Howells wrote Sam a short note asking for Stoddard’s address. He added, “Are you going to give me another of those little stories?” meaning, like “A True Story” [MTHL 1: 32].