November 8 Friday – In Dunedin, N.Z., it was a rainy, windy day and Sam noted, “This is the beginning of N Z summer, I was told” [NB 34 TS 33]. Livy and Clara went to a tea at a “charming place” possibly meeting two young girls named Whyte and Tait. This may have been a luncheon party given by Mrs. Royse at Leith House. (In his Nov. 9 notebook entry, Sam calls them “Marion White & Miss Tait — Scotch descent” [NB 34 TS 33].

In the evening at the Dunedin City Hall Sam gave another performance of his third (No.3) “At Home” program, According to Shillingsburg and Sam’s NB 35, the readings included the decadence of picturesque lying, the adventures of the continental courier, the Auntie Cord story, the cure for stammering, the punch brothers jingle, mean men, and the blue jay story.

Reviews published: Nov. 9: Evening Star; Nov. 14: Otago Witness; Nov.16: New Zealand Graphic [Shillingsburg, “Down Under” 22; At Home 137-8].

Sam also drew a humorous drawing of an animal and signed, Mark Twain (Educated Artist) Nov. 8/95 [MTP].