October – The text of an interview with ex-Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and Attorney General Brown. The supposed discussion was the Alabama uestion, but Sam was present and wrote the real discussion was about the most effective way to remove warts. Attributed to Twain in the Oct. 1869 issue of Wood’s Household Magazine [Tenney 162; Neider, MT Life as I Find It 36-7; Gale 409].

October, early – In Elmira, Sam rewrote his “Sandwich Islands” lecture and decided not to give the “Curiosities of California” talk, which he had composed earlier [MTL 3: 363n2].