November 20 Tuesday – George W. Cable arrived for a visit. He went with the Clemenses and the Warners to a reception. Cable wrote his wife the next day that he’d “Talked my head off; but don’t worry, there wasn’t anything in it.” At the Clemens home, Cable read for “Mark T., his sweet wife, her mother, & Clara and her sister. They were pleased…” [Turner, MT & GWC 23].

Cable signed and dated a copy of his book for Clemens, The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (1880) [Butterfield auction catalog, July 16, 1997, p.23 Item 2669].

In Boston, Howells wrote Sam that his telegram came just after posting his letter, and that Sam had forgotten to enclosed newspaper clippings mentioned in his last letter [MTHL 1: 451].