4. Day By Day Volume 2 Entries

Business Takes Over – An Author Without a Publisher – Riches for Mrs. Grant - Susy is Fourteen, God I’m Old! – More Paige Quicksand - Steaming across the Great Lakes – Sweltering Keokuk – Wanamaker Woes - Governor’s Island Sneak-Peek – Stanley Visits, Lectures – More Books by Dead Soldiers

Browning Reader – Too Many Books to Publish – Webster’s Neuralgia is a Pain - English as She is Taught – Soul & Entrails – Beecher Advance, Beecher Dead - Embezzler Nabbed – Question the Queen – Another Troublesome Dinner

1887 – Sometime early in the year, Sam agreed to take charge of a Wednesday Browning
reading circle, made up mostly of ladies. They would meet every week in Sam’s billiard room.
(See Mar. 22 to Fairbanks.) Paine writes:

More Publishing Struggles – Library of Humor – Blizzar - “Don’t Wear your Arctics in the White House”– Congressional Hear - Theo’s Stroke – Grace King – Webster Bought out for $

1888 – Sometime during this year an old fellow-printer from the spring of 1853 in St. Louis, Anthony Kennedy, wrote to Sam with some sort of invitation that Sam felt would “get me in trouble with No. 6” — a reference to a Webster & Co. Contract. Sam declined, and told Kennedy:

Litigating P&P Drama – Slowly Strangled by Paige – Readings for Charity - Copyright Cause – Howells’ Tragedy – Chang Riley & Eng Nye – Theo Crane Dies Baseball - Dinner – “Not a man, but a hog” – “No stoppage upon any pretext” - Pinkeyed Censor – Stedman & Beard – Elsie Leslie – Connecticut Yankee Published

Yankee Inspires Praise and Invective – Legal Tangles and Slippers for Elsie Leslie - House Wins Lawsuit – Livy’s Eyes are Bad – Goodman Stumps for Typesetter - Summer in Onteora – Susy Enters Bryn Mawr – Jane Clemens Dies­ - Jean’s Mystery Illness – Olivia Lewis Langdon Dies – Frauds & Liars!

[There is a list of publications preceding 1891 in the on-line site for DBD. No explanation for this list is given:

A More Respectable Address – Dinner With the Kaiser – Resorts and more Resorts - Flying Trip to Chicago – A World of Night-&-Day Railroading - Letters for McClure’s Syndicate – Hobnobbing in Europe - American Claimant – Viva Villa Viviani!

Books published by Charles L. Webster & Co. in 1892

Bacheller, Irving, The Master of Silence: A Romance

Beard, Daniel C., Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance

Benton, Joel, The Truth About “Protection” 

A Mighty Poor Financial Head – Villa Viviani Idyll – Wasted Trip Across the Atlantic -  Panic in the Markets – So Dismally Blue! – Pudd’nhead Wilson - Wandering Again – Back Across the Atlantic with Clara – No Money to Borrow - Henry Huttleson Rogers to the Rescue – The Belle of New York

1894 – Sometime during the year Sam inscribed Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894 to Bram Stoker: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s compts to Bram Stoker. / per / Mark Twain / ~ [MTP].

“Macfarlane” was written sometime during 1894-5, but not published during Sam’s lifetime. It was included in What is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings, Baender, ed. (1973) [Budd, Collected 2: 1002].

Sam also wrote a short note to an unidentified person:

1895 – The MTP lists this year and unknown place for a line from Sam in the palmreader Cheiro’s Memoirs. See Aug. 8, 1894 for Sam’s meeting of Cheiro. This sentiment was likely written shortly after that meeting, possibly in Cheiro’s guest log book, not in 1895.

Sometime during the year Sam wrote to an unidentified person about why he didn’t prefer writing short stories:

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.

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits –FE ch 6  
 “Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read. –FE ch. 25 
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can. –FE ch. 56 
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. –FE ch. 36 
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. –FE ch. 59