May 20 Sunday – Sam and James R. Osgood traveled from Hartford to New York City to watch Collender’s great billiard tournament at Tammany Hall [MTBus 214].

Lafcadio Hearn of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, reviewing LM, concluded,

Notwithstanding its lively spirit of fun, the volume is a more serious creation by far than The Innocents Abroad; and in some respects seems to us the most solid book that Mark Twain has written [Budd, Reviews 237].

Samuel E. Dawson (telegram on behalf of Lord Lorne) “Ceremony of Knighthood on twenty fourth you should see try and arrive at Ottawa in evening of twenty third at latest if you cant come earlier reply to Lord Lorne direct” [MTP].

George E. Waring wrote from Newport, RI, planning a visit in July to Elmira and thanking him for “the chaste and graphic sketch” (1601?) [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Waring / Good—don’t forget the visit / Stir up that tobacco man. & after 10th send it to Elmira”