Scott,

The DAY BY DAY entry is misleading.  The quote, found in Kenneth Andrews's
NOOK FARM, is referring to an entry in Twichell's personal journal made on
that date -- not a luncheon at the Hartford house on that date.

Barb

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:40 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I've come across an enigmatic entry in Day By Day for January 12, 1879
>
> January 12 Sunday – the Clemenses loved to entertain, something expected
> of many Nook Farm residents. according to Twichell’s journal, a dinner
> was given at Sam’s for Louis Fréchette, Poet Laureate of Canada:
>
> “M.T. /never was/ so funny as this time. The perfect art of a certain
> kind of story telling will die with him. No one beside /can/ ever equal
> him, I am sure” [Andrews 92].
>
> This doesn't make much sense to me as Twichell was not in Munich in 1879
> and Sam was not at Nook Farm.  I believe the Andrews reference is to
> Andrews, Kenneth R. /Nook Farm – Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle. /Seattle:
> University of Washington Press, 1950.  I don't have access to that.
>
> --
> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
>