Railroad:  New York Central

Sam wrote from Syracuse, New York to Thomas Nast, thanking him for the Nast family’s recent hospitality in Morristown, N.J.

“...do all your praying now, for a time is coming when you will have to go railroading & platforming, & then you will find you cannot pray any more because you will have only just time to swear enough” [MTP].

...at the opera house in Ithaca, New York, they opened to “a quiet, undemonstrative audience and presently had them clean out of themselves,” Cable chuckled. Afterward Sam went to a beer hall “and found about forty students from Cornell University” with whom he imbibed. [Page 430 The Life of Mark Twain - The Middle Years 1871-1891]

Sam and Cable arrived at Albany, New York at noon. Governor and President-elect Cleveland requested an audience. Writing to Livy the next day about the meeting: ...we had a quite jolly & pleasant brief chat with the President-elect. He remembered me easily, have seen me often in Buffalo, but I didn’t remember him, of course, & I didn’t say I did.

According to Scharnhorst ((The Middle Years pg 430), they left Baltimore early Monday morning (after midnight).  Following Day By Day, they must have traveled to Hartford and Simsbury respectively. From New Haven, Twain would continue to Hartford and Cable would take the New Haven and Northampton to Simsbury.  Later that day the Clemens family drove north a few hours to Simsbury. Sam and Cable would take the New Haven and Northampton to Westfield, then the Boston and Albany to  Adams, Mass., on the western side of the state. Sam wrote at 6:30 PM from Adams, Mass.

Sam submitted to an “interview” by the Baltimore American. (See Fatout, Mark Twain Speaks for Himself, p137.)

They spoke at the Lyceum - Library

Livy’s 39 th birthday.

Once again, Sam was away from home on a family member’s birthday.

Sam and Cable left Washington for Philadelphia, where they gave a reading in Association Hall.

Departed Brooklyn "early" for Washington DC. and registered at the Ebbitt House near the White House.

Sam and Cable left Philadelphia and traveled to Brooklyn, where they gave two performances at the Academy of Music. The Brooklyn Eagle called it “The Literary Event of the Season” [p.5]. Henry Ward Beecher and Dean Sage and wife were in the audience. A Miss Copelin from St. Louis sent Sam a note and he went to see her. She was the daughter of a young girl he once knew. Miss Copelin was 21 and her mother was only fifteen when Sam knew her. “It made things seem a long time ago, & also made me feel very old & useless” [Nov. 23 to Clara Clemens, MTP].

2 Shows. Huge houses.