November 1 Wednesday – Sam inscribed a copy of HF to Francis Wilson: Salutation and Best Wishes to Francis Wilson from Mark Twain. New York, Nov. 1, 1893 [MTP].
The Brooklyn Eagle, along with other newspapers, announced on p.4:
THE NEW NOVEL BY MARK TWAIN
which will begin in the December CENTURY, like several of Mark Twain’s stories, has for its scene a steamboat town on the Mississippi River forty years ago. It is perhaps the most dramatic novel that Mark Twain has ever written. “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” a hard-headed country lawyer furnishes much…
There is this trouble about special
providences, — namely: there is often
a doubt as to which party was intended
to be the beneficiary. In the case of the
Children, the Bears and the Prophet,
the bears got more real satisfaction
out of the episode than the prophet
Did, because they got the children. —
PUDD’NHEAD WILSON’S CALENDAR.
The same newspaper, on p.7 also ran an announcement for a current magazine:
ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE.
The November St. Nicholas begins the twenty-first volume, enlarge by consolidation with the Wide Awake and further fortified by Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain. The former begins a series of tales of India with “Rikki Tikki Tavo”….and next comes “Tom Sawyer Abroad,” by Huck Finn, edited by Mark Twain, which takes up Tom Sawyer after Tom got shot in the leg, having just set Darky Jim free. Tom wasn’t satisfied “after all them adventures.” They only “just p’isoned him for more,” and here he is again, working a balloon around the world just to show what he can do.