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From my work-in-progress, Mark Twain Day by Day, Vol. 1 1835-1885 (now on
the home stretch)


April 17 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to David G. Croly,
editor of the New York Graphic. Sam included a list of telegraph headings to
show how “dull” things had become, leading him to he
fidgets” and want to travel. He included news of his collaboration with Warner. The letter was published in the Graphic on Apr. 22 [MTL 5:
341-3]. 

and also...

April 22 Tuesday – Sam’s letter dated Apr. 17 to David G.
Croly, editor of the New York Graphic ran in that paper [MTL 5: 343n1]. The
headings Sam pointed to in pointing out the “solemn peacefulness” and “general stagnation, the profound lethargy that broods
over the land” included:

Wall Street Panicky; Two to Three Hundred Men Roasted Alive!; Incendiarism
in a Baptist Flock; A TOWN IN A STATE OF GENERAL RIOT; The Modoc Massacre;
A Father Killed by his Son [MTL 5: 342]. 

(Sam cut the newspaper headlines form page 3 of the Hartford Evening Post
for April 16, 1873.)

David H Fears