November 24 Sunday – Sam wrote from Washington to Frank Fuller about his strategy for lecturing somewhere other than “in the provinces.”

“I have solemnly yielded up my liberty for a whole session of Congress—enrolled my name on the regular Tribune staff, made the Tribune bureau here my headquarters, taken correspondence for two other papers [the Alta California and the Territorial Enterprise] & one magazine [the Galaxy]…” [MTL 2: 111-113].

Sam turned down the money offered for eighteen lectures through the Associated Western Literary Societies, thinking he would make twice that and gain reputation in Washington. Sam also wrote John Russell Young a short note enclosing three of his Holy Land letters [MTL 2: 113-14].

Sam’s “Holy Land Excursion. Letter from Mark Twain Number Twenty-six” dated Sept. 8 ran in the Alta California [McKeithan 173-8].