First joint reading in a big city to “a very large audience”. (pg 17, Cardwell)
Touring with Cable and Huck provides reviews from three Boston papers; The Boston Globe, Post and Transcript.
From the Boston Herald, November 12, 1884, page 4:
NOTES
November 13 Thursday – Here was the first big test in a big city—Boston. Pond placed advertisements in the Evening Transcript several days in advance, starting with Nov. 8. He presented the reading as part of the lyceum lecture series. The focus of these ads became the standard for the tour—“Twain is a comedian; Cable a master of humor and pathos” [Cardwell 17].