December 9 Tuesday – Sam and Cable were driven around Toronto to see the sights, which included the University of Toronto. They visited the studio of painter Andrew Dickson Patterson (1854-1930) famous a year later for his portrait of Canada’s first prime minister, John A. Macdonald (1815-1891).

Sam wrote from Toronto, Canada to Livy:

      Livy darling, guess who I stumbled on in the hotel car yesterday, with cheery countenance & healthy appetite? Frank Hall the exile. He said he was going to Chicago.

      We have been all over town, to-day, in the crisp cold air, but I read too long, after going to bed,—read past the sleepy point—& so I have lost my afternoon nap. However, I’m getting a bath ready, & shall go from that to the platform & be all right, no doubt [MTP].

Sam enclosed a short article about the power of a half dozen schoolgirls to brighten up Sphinx-like people on a railroad car. “These be the heavenly bodies in the firmament of our home & life,” Sam wrote across the article.

In the evening, Sam and Cable gave a second Toronto performance in Horticulture Gardens Pavilion. Both Toronto events were sold out [Roberts 22]. The Toronto Globe ran a 2,000-word article on the Dec. 8 performance, including a near verbatim record of Sam’s conversations between Huck and Jim [Cardwell 27-8].

The Toronto Globe printed “The Genial Mark: An Interview” on page 2. Sam explained why he broke his vow never to lecture again [Scharnhorst, Interviews 59].

Daniel A. Rose for Rose Publishing Co., Toronto wrote to “respectfully enquire if you are in a position to consider an offer for the publishing of your new book in Canada.” He mentioned prior efforts to republish TA and P&P from Sam’s publishers [MTP].

Edward H. House wrote from Tokyo, Japan, enclosing “bits of lace work, which Mrs. Clemens has doubtless been wondering about…” [MTP].