March 15 Sunday – The Sunday San Francisco Chronicle loved Huck Finn:

Anyone who has ever lived in the Southwest, or who has visited that section, will recognize the truth of all these sketches and the art with which they are brought into this story [Perry 144-5].

William L. Alden wrote “I would if I could but I am not a man of authority, having editors under me. I proposed it to the authorities, but they didn’t seem to see it. … / I have just read Huck through in course. It is the best book ever written” [MTP].