November 24 Sunday – In Auckland, Livy wrote to her sister, Sue Crane:

Saturday we [lunched] at Bishopscourt, which is the bishop’s palace here…the bishop was interesting, but I found his wife still more so.

Mr. Clemens does not seem to have as much strength as I could wish to see him have. Yesterday he seemed to feel better, to have more spring, but today he is threatened with another carbuncle. Naturally that makes him feel very much discouraged. However, I still have faith to believe that with Dr Fitzgerald’s remedies I shall be able to get it checked. Dr Fitzgerald did do wonders for the other one [MTP].

The Boston Daily Globe, p.18, “Mark Twain’s Twins,” previewed Frank Mayo’s dramatization of PW to start this coming week at the Tremont Theater in Boston. The article quotes Sam saying he was glad Mayo “took those twins in…and it pleases me to see that you have made a pair of pretty decent fellows out of them.” This article echoes Sam’s N.Y. curtain speech of May 22 for the play.