May 18 Thursday – The Minneapolis arrived at Muscatine, Iowa. Osgood rejoined Sam at Davenport, Iowa.

“We had not time to go ashore in Muscatine, but had a daylight view of it from the boat. I lived there awhile, many years ago, but the place, now, had a rather unfamiliar look; so I suppose it has clear outgrown the town which I used to know” [Ch 57 LM].

The Keokuk Constitution ran an interview with Sam on page 4; Sam gave some details of his current trip [Budd, “Interviews” 3].

The Keokuk Gate City ran “Mark Twain / … A Short Chat with the Gentleman,” but included no direct quotations; mentioned that Sam recently told an anecdote about reciting the same Bible verses for five years [Budd, “Interviews” 3].