December 14 Sunday – Sam and Cable gave a reading in Muskegon, Mich. on Dec. 14. Previously reported as Dec. 4. See SLC to Andrew Chatto on Dec. 14, also from Muskegon. Mark Twain Journal misreported the date.

Sam wrote from Muskegon, Mich. to Andrew Chatto, telling him about the good time he was having “on the highway i.e., the platform, giving readings on Huck Finn” and other books. Should he venture over and try it in London in the spring or summer? [MTP]. Note: This letter may have been misdated, because Sam wrote the day before and this day from Grand Rapids, as did Cable.

Sam also wrote short notes in German from the Morton House in Grand Rapids, Mich. to each of his daughters, Clara, Jean, and Susy. He also wrote to Livy, happy that the “thundering hard week” would end at home.

Livy dear, I have just written three German letters to the children, & now I will give the fag-end of my time before train-departure to a word with Mamma. By George these are terrific days of travel!—eight, ten, twelve hours in the cars every day or night, & a talk on the platform at the end. Toledo & Detroit have been interchanged; consequently I leave here at 6 p.m. to-day, reach Jackson toward 10; leave there half past 5 a.m., & get to Toledo during the forenoon. Cable would land in — — - – – – – – in a minute if he were to go a mile on Sunday; consequently he leaves here at 5 to-morrow morning, & is on the road the entire day till night [MTP].

Sam also wrote a two-line note to Charles Webster, asking him to get the Globe edition of Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte D’Arthur” and leave it with James B. Pond for his brother, Ozias W. Pond  [MTP].

Sam stayed in Jackson, Michigan, population then about 16,000, and wrote about the hotel and furnishings the next day to Livy. It snowed lightly all day and night [Dec. 15 to Livy].