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March 2 MondayWilliam Hamersley sent Sam a printed postcard announcing a meeting of the stockholders of The Farnham Type-setter Manufacturing Co. at the office of James W.Paige at 12 o’clock M., March 6, 1891. The stated purpose of the meeting was to examine the plans for the manufacture of the Paige Compositor [MTP]. Note: At midnight!

Charles A. Willard wrote from Muncie, Ind. to Sam with a question about LM: how was it that the Mississippi River draws its water from the Delaware? Willard confessed being a stranger to Sam, but Mark Twain was as “familiar in my household as is the name of my 9 year old girl” [MTP]. On the envelope Sam wrote, “Tell him Parkman’s LaSalle will explain the mystery.”

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Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.   

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