October 7 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Edward L. Burlingame about seeing Edward’s father Anson and family in New York and about the Treaty article which appeared in the Tribune.

“Do you remember your Honolulu joke? –‘If a man compel thee to go with him a mile, go with him Twain.’ I have closed many & many a lecture, in many a city, with that. It always ‘fetches’ them” [MTL 2: 261]. Note: Sam was to grow weary of the joke, however.

Sam also wrote to Henry Crane about the title of his new lecture, taken from passages of Innocents Abroad. The lecture was first announced as “Americans in the Old World,” but became “American Vandals in the Old World.” “I am one of those myself,” Sam wrote [MTL 2: 262].