October 20 Saturday – Twichell’s journal:

“Saw Charles Warren Stoddard the author at M.T’s” [Yale, copy at MTP].

Livy started a “visitor’s book” for the many callers to write in. Eight years later, on June 7, 1885, she turned it into a diary, “as we always forget to ask visitors to write in it.” Stoddard was the first to sign the visitor’s book:  “Livy: First—the most” / yours always / Chas. Warren Stoddard”

October 20? Saturday – Sam sent a letter he’d received to Charles Perkins from agents Davies, Turner & Co., New York, concerning the engraving “Christ leaving the Prætorium.” The agent had received payment from Sam through Routledge for sixteen pounds for the picture. The suppliers of the engraving, Fairless and Beeforth, claimed to these agents previously that they never promise engravings by any specified time. It’s likely that the man who sold Sam the engraving made the promise, though unauthorized to do so. Sam wrote back to Perkins on the Davies letter,

“I suppose they ought to give up the order on Routledge now. SLC” [MTLE 2:177].

October 20–22 Monday – Sam inscribed five of his books to Charles Warren Stoddard, during a two-day visit: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Gilded Age, Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old, and Roughing It [MTLE 2:178-82].

Sam included a letter dated Oct. 22, apologizing for not accompanying Stoddard to the train station (Livy scolded Sam for sending “anybody away alone.”) Sam invited Stoddard to “give me one more chance” and visit again.