April 27 Friday – Sam had just received another letter from Livy and responded again from Baltimore.

“Livy My Darling, I had a jolly adventure last night with a chap from the ‘Eastern Shore’—you must remind me to tell you about it when I get home. I spent 4 hours in the State Prison to-day, after rehearsal, but it would take a book to hold all I saw & heard” [MTLE 2: 58].

Sam also wrote to William Dean Howells “(On the stage of Ford’s Theatre, 11 in the morning.)” Sam wished his best friend were there, watching rehearsals of Ah Sin [MTLE 2: 59].

On or about this day the Baltimore Gazette ran “Mark Twain’s Opinion,” Sam’s comments on the Russian Czar; and California gold mining [Scharnhorst, Interviews 11-13].