September 9 Monday – Sam and Livy wrote from Geneva to Joe Twichell, thanking him for his visit, bemoaning the fact that “the pleasant tramping & talking” were “at an end.” It had been a “rich holiday” for Sam; the Clemens even missed having Joe knock on their door to wake them in the mornings [MTLE 3: 89]. The letter may have beaten Joe home to Hartford. Sam wrote in his notebook that he purchased a “wonderful music box” from a “Pleasant gentleman—An Englishman,” Mr. George Baker [MTNJ 2: 176].