November 1 Tuesday – Mrs. William S. Karr sent Mr. & Mrs. Clemens a wedding invitation for her daughter Helen to Mr. Lucius Chester Ryce, on this date in Hartford [MTP]. Note: Geer’s 1886 Hartford City Directory lists “Karr William S. professor Hartford Theological Seminary.”

November 1–15 Tuesday – Sometime during this two weeks in Florence, Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall, repeating that Tom Sawyer Abroad was ready to be submitted to the St. Nicholas and giving Mary Mapes Dodge permission to “alter it to suit her market,” and offering it for $4,000 since it was 40,000 words, some 10,000 short of what she wanted [MTP]. Note: This is a P.S. and a fragment that survives.