January 1881

scott 1 December 2022

January – “Contributors’ Club” items in the Atlantic Monthly were usually unsigned. Sam’s untitled piece on Tauchnitz ran in this month’s issue [Camfield, bibliog.].

November 2, 1866 Friday ca.

scott 29 November 2022

November 2 Friday ca.– On or about this day Sam wrote from Virginia City to Catherine C. (Kate) Lampton and Annie E. and Samuel E. Moffett. Kate was Sam’s first cousin; Annie and Sammy were Pamela Moffett’s children, Sam’s niece and nephew. Teasing Annie again about the “bullrushers” story, Sam asked,

Ash Canyon-Washoe Trail

scott 7 November 2022

David C. Antonucci has suggested this as the route Sam  took from Carson to Tahoe.  "This route meets all the criteria described by Twain in Roughing It. It is more fully described in Chapter 3 of my book, Fairest Picture - Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe,"  

 

Day By Day: 1896

scott 3 November 2022

Farewell to the “Modern Heaven” – Oriental Charm & Mystery – Political Turmoil Lecturing in the Back Country – Retired From the Platform Susy Dies From Spinal Meningitis –“I Know What Misery Is At Last” Hiding Away

1896 – Harper & Brothers published Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories in one volume. Both tales had been serialized in magazines.

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