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August 3 Monday – Sam wrote from New York to Mary Mason Fairbanks:

“I knew that dog would die. I knew perfectly well you had invoked a fatal disaster for him when you gave him my name. He received all my sins along with the name, perhaps, & no dog could survive that” [MTL 2: 238].

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Links to Twain's Geography Entries
Pilgrims and Vandals: Day By Day
Publishing Innocents Abroad - Day By Day
DBD: Publishing Innocents Abroad

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.