November 8 Sunday – Sam’s first letter from Europe, “The Tramp Abroad Again: I. Paradise of the Rheumatics,” or “Mark Twain at Aix-les-Bains” ran in McClure’s syndicated newspapers, including the N.Y. Sun, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Boston Globe, and others. The piece was reprinted as “The Paradise of the Rheumatics” in Europe and Elsewhere in 1923 [Camfield citing Budd’s Europe and Elsewhere; Rasmussen 336; Budd, Collected 2: 1000].

In Berlin at 7 Körnerstrasse, Sam wrote again to Frederick J. Hall, responding to a letter concerning Nathaniel J. Burton’s widow, who may have asked to purchase the remaining Yale Lectures on Preaching and Other Writings (1888). This book had been a project directly supervised by Sam, and even printed in Hartford instead of N.Y.

All I ever had in my mind was to make some money for Mrs. Burton because I loved her husband so. I myself am perfectly willing to grant this request of hers or any other, but I mustn’t ask you to do it unless you feel entirely willing. Please write her — accepting her proposition, or declining it, or modifying it in any way you like, and I shall be satisfied [MTLTP 291].

The Brooklyn Eagle, Nov. 8, 1891 p.9, “Among the Amateurs” ran a notice of a Jewish club, “The Laurence” producing one of Sam’s works on stage:

The Laurences will have a royal time this winter, for an elaborate preparation has been made…November 18, parlor theatricals, “The Meistershaft,” by Mark Twain, and reception to follow.