October – Sometime during the month, probably after the Clemenses were settled in Berlin, Sam inscribed a photograph of himself to Charles Warren Stoddard: C.W.S. / from his oldest and wisest friend / Mark Twain / Oct 1891 [MTP].

Sam’s notebook entry during this month shows he at least knew of Emily Dickinson. He quoted Thomas W. Higginson’s description of her father’s house in Amherst, Mass:

one of those large, square, brick mansions so familiar in our older New England towns, surrounded by trees and blossoming shrubs.

Sam also noted Alexandre Dumas’ The Man in the Iron Mask [Gribben 206; NB 31, TS 8].