April 1887

Spring – Profits on Grant’s MemoirsSam, $93,481.34; Webster $25,942.37; Mrs. Grant $394,459.53 [MTNJ 3: 316n47].

April – “English As She Is Taught” was published in the April issue of Century Magazine. Sam had included the schoolboy’s composition from the piece, “On Girls” in his Feb. 10 talk before the Stationers’ Board of Trade on Governor’s Island [MTNJ 3: 278n179]. He also read part of the article at Boston and New Haven on Mar. 31.

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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