August 11 Sunday – In Tacoma, Washington, another rest day for the Clemens party. These were on Sundays or strategically placed to give Livy time to recover from traveling. Whenever it was possible, Sam and J.B. Pond would travel fairly short distances without the ladies for a lecture in another town. This allowed the ladies to limit their travel fatigue.

See the Aug. 11 Oregonian interview in the Aug. 10 entry. The Tacoma Union, p.6 ran an interview, “Mark Twain and Major Pond” [Scharnhorst, Interviews 175-8]. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran an interview, “The Same Old Twain” on p.7 [178-81].