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October 15 Friday – Sam telegraphed at 10 AM from Boston to Howells in Belmont, Mass.:

“I will bet you thirty (30) dollars to ten (10) cents that you wont get this telegram before supper which comes of living out in the woods and the money is up in House’s hands but we start at eleven fifteen 11.15 any way—” [MTLE 5: 175].

Sam and Edward House escorted General Ulysses S. Grant from Boston to Hartford.

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Links to Twain's Geography Entries
Home at Hartford: Day By Day
DBD: Hartford 1880 to Summer of 1881

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.