October 26 Sunday – Sam and Clara Clemens were in the third and last day of their visit at Bryn Mawr College with Susy. See Nov. 4 from Burdette.

In Hartford Livy wrote to her mother:

Jean and I went to church this morning it was grey and chilly. We are alone in the house, Mr. Clemens and Clara having gone down to Bryn Mawr to spend Saturday and Sunday with Susy … I wish there was some way to change our manner of living but that seems next to impossible unless we sell our house….Mr. Clemens is reading aloud to me Mr Stanley’s new book which we are enjoying very much indeed [Salsbury 283-4; MTNJ 3: 588]. Note: Henry M. Stanley’s In Darkest Africa was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in July 1890. Sam had chased Stanley long and hard for his book; it’s not clear why Stanley chose another US publisher.