November 22 Sunday – In Redding, Conn., Isabel Lyon wrote for Sam to Helen Keller.

Dear Miss Keller:

November 21 Saturday – In Redding, Conn. Sam inscribed a copy of Eve’s Diary to Mary Elizabeth Milner Harmsworth (Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth); Baroness Northcliffe; 1868- 1963): “To Lady Northcliffe with the compliments of the Author. / Adam at Eve’s Grave: / ‘Wheresoever she was, There was Eden’ (page 109)./ Nov 21/08” [MTP].  

Sam’s new guestbook:  

  Name Address Date Remarks

Commodore D. Dow, R.N.R. R.M.S. “Caronia” Nov. 21-24

November 20 Friday – Sam’s new guestbook:  

Name Address Date Remarks

Lord Northcliffe ) London ) Nov. 20-21

Col. George Harvey ) New York

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Very bad headache. / Lord Northcliffe and Col. Harvey came up for the night” [MTP: IVL TS 80].

November 19 Thursday – Sam’s new guestbook:  

Name Address Date Remarks

Judge Wm Scoville Case ) Danbury Nov. 19 Judge & state’s attorney

Stiles Judson )      who tried the burglars

Note: in the original guestbook one additional name is listed, Bettye D.G. Doubleday, Mill Neck, L.I.  

November 18 Wednesday – Sam’s new guestbook   (and Lyon’s journal TS 80):

Name Address Date Remarks

Frank Nelson Doubleday )

Neltje D.G. Doubleday ) 11 East 16th st.  New York Nov. 18-19  -> The perfect pair  [D.G. = De Graff]

 Note: Neltje de Graff Doubleday (Mrs. Frank N. Doubleday) (1865-1918)

November 17 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Benares came back” [MTP: IVL TS 79].

Frank Bohrer, “a poor boy afflicted with locomotor ataxia which caused blindness” wrote from Sherrill, NY to ask Sam for a signed picture postcard [MTP]. Note: “Autogr. Sent Dec 7. 08. MLH”

Elva Fernald wrote from Topeka, Kans. to Sam, about to give a talk on Mark Twain, and thinking “a few words directly from” his pen “would add greatly to the enjoyment…”  [MTP]. Note: IVL: “Unable to grant request”

August 7 Monday – In St. Louis, Sam boarded with the Paveys, formerly of Hannibal. Sam’s roommate was Jacob H. Burrough (1827-1883) “a journeyman chairmaker with a taste for Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, and Disraeli” [MTB 103]. (See also MTNJ 1: 37n45, & Nov. 1, 1876 letter to Jacob H. Burrough.)

In a Dec. 15, 1900 letter to Jacob’s son, Frank E. Burrough (1865-1903), Sam recalled the boarding house: 

Short Washington Vacation – Philadelphia to New York
Return to St. Louis and Muscatine – Orion Ties the Knot

A Drunk Burned – Sam Again in Charge – Grumbler vs. Rambler – Assistant’s Column Sam
Left Hannibal for St. Louis –New York City Typesetter
Philadelphia’s Better Than New York

May 1 Saturday – The Carpet Bag, a Boston journal that provided rustic humor, and was often sent to Western towns, carried a 425-word sketch of Sam’s titled “The Dandy Frightening the Squatter.” It was signed with Sam’s initials, “S.L.C.” The sketch related a steamboat passenger showing off to female passengers by acting brave, only to be one-upped by a Hannibal man [A. Hoffman 29]. No payment was made, but the glory was all Sam’s.