September 6 Sunday – Sam wrote the Alta California about Hartford: “Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief. I never saw any place before where morality and huckleberries flourished as they do here” [MTNJ 1: 498].

Sam’s article, LETTER FROM MARK TWAIN, dated August at “Hartford”, ran in the San Francisco California Alta. Subtitles: The Proper Time to Sail; Captain Ned Wakeman, Mariner; Dissipation of Aspinwall; Personal Items; Hartford—The “Blue Laws”; Morality and Huckleberries; A Legend. [Schmidt]. Note: this article did not run in the Hartford Courant until Oct. 9.