March 18 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

Herr Heinick came for dinner tonight. The table talk wasn’t very brilliant for Mr. Clemens was tired (?) or didn’t like the man—(since, I’ve found that he didn’t like the man, for he had expected to find an old and wise professor.)

Life in this way is so vitally interesting. The hours are like pearls in a string and I hope that the cord that holds them is a strong one [MTP: TS 46].

Harper’s Weekly published Mark Twain’s “The First Writing-Machines” (alternate title for “From My Unpublished Autobiography.”) It was later collected in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906). See the inside cover ad.