Pilot Skills on a 300-footer – The Unfettered life – Sam the Mason

Pilot’s License – Sgt. Fathom & Captain Isaiah Sellers
Running Aground and Heroism – Working the River

Dream River and Dream Laura – Disaster Forewarned – A Pounding in the Pilot House
Henry Dead from Pennsylvania Explosion – More Steamboats, More Work

First Dinner Speech – Dreams of S. America & Coca Riches – First Sweethearts
Keokuk, St. Louis and Snodgrass Letters – Cincinnati Typesetter – Macfarlane

St. Louis – Letters to the Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal
Orion & Mollie Moved to Keokuk; Sam Followed – Visit back home
Oh! to be a Cub Pilot – Worked for Orion in Keokuk – Warsaw, Illinois – Back in Keokuk

November 30 Monday  – Sam’s 73rd Birthday. The New York Times, Dec. 1, p.1 “Mark Twain is 73.” announced that Sam passed his birthday “quietly at his home…As was his custom, Mr. Clemens took his morning ride, passing the remainder of the day with his household.”

In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to daughter Jean   in Berlin, Germany.

November 29 Sunday – Elizabeth Wallace ended her visit and left Stormfield on an early train. 

November 28 Saturday – Elizabeth Wallace describes the events of her last day’s stay at Stormfield:

November 27 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “The King read for the benefit of the Library” [MTP: IVL TS 81].

Elizabeth Wallace describes the events of a full day at Stormfield:

November 26 Thursday – Thanksgiving – Elizabeth Wallace, whom Sam had met upon his arrival in Bermuda on Jan. 26, arrived at Stormfield for a visit of several days. She is listed for this day in Sam’s new guestbook, with his note under Remarks: “Stayed several days but not long enough. Blackmer, discovered her in Bermuda about a year ago.” She left Stormfield the morning of Nov. 29. In her 1914 recollection, Mark Twain and the Happy Island, Wallace writes: