May 27, 1891 Wednesday

May 27 WednesdayMary Mason Fairbanks had heard of the Clemens family’s departure to Europe and wrote from Omaha asking for news and addresses:

Do give me a parting wave of the hand as you sail out of the bay — (a word of adieu before you sail) — and may I not hope that some one of the Clemenses abroad will bottle up a leaf from their foreign journal and commit it to the sea? — perhaps the current will carry it into the Missouri river and wash it up on the shores of Omaha [MTMF 266]. Note: The Fairbanks had moved to Omaha with the loss of their ownership in the Cleveland newspaper.

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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