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May  “Mark Twain and the Cats” ran in the May issue of the women’s magazine, The Globe. A New Musical JournalVol. V. No. 5, New York: Charles A. Atkinson & Co. p. 101-24. The article included an engraving of Sam and one of three cats [eBay June 6, 2009, # 200347763614].

Howells’ review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer appeared in the May edition of the Atlantic Monthly [MTLE 1: 43]. Sam wrote a glowing “Introductory” for Dan De Quille’s The Big Bonanza [Berkove 14].

Sometime this month in Hartford Clemens inscribed his photo to Alice E. Kingsbury“See vague portrait of the father in right hand corner. I was behind the curtain holding the Children’s heads & not purposing to be a part of the group” [MTP].

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Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.