November 24 Thursday – Thanksgiving – According to Sam’s Nov. 16 to Fairbanks, Charles J. Langdon’s daughter, Julia Langdon, came up from her New York School for the holiday with the Clemens family.

In Hartford Sam wrote to Laurence Hutton.

I am just home from N.Y. & find Mrs. Hutton’s kind note….I wish I could be at the supper & see Irving & the rest of you, albeit dissipations which begin at 11.30 & end at breakfast are hard upon the chit of 52, I find; however, I couldn’t in present circumstances anyway, because we are having the Hawleys & a lot of people to dinner the 29th….

Sam added that Livy had been sick in bed for a few days “& in the doctor’s hands.” This last statement, together with the one above of “just home from N.Y.” show that after returning from New York on Saturday, Nov. 19, Sam then returned alone to the big City sometime in the Nov. 21–24 period.