November 15 Saturday – The Boston Daily Advertiser touted George W. Cable as a southern gentleman, Sam as a Connecticut resident—adding the Civil War reconciliation aspect, a “literary bridging of the bloody chasm” and a “rostrum of rapproachment of Louisiana and Connecticut” [Lorch 164].

Sam and Cable gave a matinee reading in Boston [Turner, MT & GWC 59].

Sam wrote from Boston to Orion, asking him not to telegram about open dates, that it wasted his money.

I placed the matter in my agent’s hands two days ago; & there I leave all such things. We have but 2 dates open in January—that is, we had 2 open; but it is quite possible that the N.Y. agency has filled them before this. We have no engagements on the river except St. Louis—not a single hall or theatre to be had, upon a convenient date, in any town from St. Louis to St. Paul [MTP].

Sam also wrote from Boston to James B. Pond. There’d been too many empty seats at Brockton and at the matinee reading in Boston.

“Louder advertising is absolutely necessary. We must have, in every town & city, one of two or half a dozen vast red posters with the single line, MARK TWAIN—CABLE . . .” [MTP].