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February 25 Friday – Sam gave a reading at Twichell’s Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford. He wrote of this reading in his Feb. 27 letter to Howells:

“…the thing that went best of all was Uncle Remus’s Tar Baby” [MTLP 394-5].

Sam also wrote from Hartford to Charles Perkins asking if he had “Mills’s agreement for Colorado.” This was a contract for Kaolatype work. Sam requested a copy [MTP].

Worden & Co. telegraphed Sam: “ Bought for your account one hundred Mo Pac Ninety six and three quarters” [MTP]. Note: Missouri Pacific at 96 & 3/4.

February 2527 Sunday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Karl Gerhardt about a book and the “Probable Expenses” the Gerhardts would face in traveling to Paris, France; Sam estimated $62.30 [MTP].

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.   

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