May 31 Saturday – In the wee hours of May 31 in Hannibal, Mo. Sam wrote of the trip and the previous full day to Livy. See May 29 entry.

Later in the day Sam attended a reception for the 1901 Hannibal High School graduating class in the Windsor Hotel and told of his boyhood attempt to get measles. They gave Sam a spoon engraved with an image of his old home on Hill Street [Sorrentino 21]. Note: see MTCI p.447.

Sam’s notebook: “7.30 p.m., hotel. Meet class of 1900, High School. / 8.30 Reception” [NB 45 TS 15].

Livy’s diary: “Bessie Hall [Hull?] came, remained until Wednesday June 4th” [MTP: DV161].

Sorrentino puts the Labinnah Club gathering at this evening, calling it Sam’s “last ever in Hannibal”

Fatout lists the event with Sam making remarks—but of course Clemens made remarks everywhere he went [MT Speaking 670].

Hastings MacAdam’s article in the St. Louis Republic, “Affection of Old Friends Moves Mark Twain to

Tears,” ran on p. 1. Budd: “SLC comments substantially on his Civil War service and on patriotism” [Budd,

“Supplement” ALR 16.1 (Spring 1983) 70]. Budd’s no. 177a.Also in MTCI 440-4.

Robertus Love’s article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Mark Twain Dines with His Sweetheart of Old Time Days” [MTCI 435-40].

The ledger books of Chatto & Windus show that 6,000 copies of the 3s.6d. edition of A Double-Barrelled Detective Story were printed [Welland 238; 1904 Financials file MTP].