scott
31 October 2021
March 24 Sunday – Sam was asked to speak at a Sunday school in Carondelet, a town bordering St. Louis. Sam told the John Godfrey sky-rocket story that later appeared in Roughing It [Sanborn 323].
Sam wrote a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican [Tenney 2]. A humorous advertisement for the Mar. 25 lecture also ran in the same paper, repeating Sam’s promise, first made in the Petaluma performance, to show how cannibals would eat a child, given a volunteer from the audience [Lorch 54].
Sam’s article “Barbarous” ran in the New York Sunday Mercury [Camfield bibliog.].
Entry Date
Mar 24, 1867 - Sun
Editor Note
According to Lorch pg 47, the first time Twain offered to demonstrate cannibalism was November 21 in San Jose. Lorch does change this to Petaluma on page 54.