October 27 Friday – In Hartford Sam responded to letters and a formal invitation from John Elderkin and Frank R. Lawrence about a forthcoming banquet:

I have named two friends of Mr. Lawrence whom I should like to have invited. I hope we’ll have a good time at the dinner, & go home instructed & elevated. But the former is the hardest; let us look particularly to that [MTP]. Note: Lawrence was president of the Lotos Club at this time; Elderkin was secretary; he wrote A Brief History of the Lotos Club (1895) including the dinner honoring Mark Twain.