April 17 Saturday – In New York City, Sam and Howells met to arrange Howells’ visit to Hartford, which did not occur until May 1-2 weekend. In the evening the Clemens party took in The Mikado, the first American run of the D’Oyly Carte Mikado, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre [MTHL 2: 554n3 from an entry in Susy’s unfinished biography dated Apr. 18, 1886]. Gribben quotes Susy:

mama and papa Clara and Daisy [Margaret Warner] have gone to New York to see the “Mikado” [258].

It’s likely that they spent a second evening in the City, returning home on Monday, Apr. 19, as Sunday travel for them was rare.