The Twichell excerpt reappears in MTDBD under 3 February 1882, when
Frechette was a guest of the Friday Evening Club at the Clemens's home.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:06 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you, Barbara.  I've made note of this in my Day By Day entry in my
> website project.  Who knows when this will be made public, though.
>
> On 1/20/23 12:47, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
> > Scott,
> >
> > I do not have a copy of Twichell's journals, but it seems Andrews may
> have
> > misdated or misread Twichell's journal entry date.  Other sources,
> > including MARK TWAIN'S NOTEBOOKS AND JOURNALS, VOL. 2 indicate Frechette
> > visited Twain in Hartford in early 1882, (p. 414). In Fatout's MARK TWAIN
> > SPEAKING he reprints a toast Clemens gave to Frechette and indicates the
> > two first met in Montreal in 1881 (p. 166).  Frechette, by the way, was a
> > brother to William D. Howells's brother-in-law.
> >
> > It looks to me like Andrews misdated Twichell's journal entry and then
> DBD
> > compounded the error.
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:55 PM Scott Holmes<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you. I actually have an account there but failed to not the
> >> "borrow for one hour" button.  Alas Andrews does not provide a date for
> >> the Fréchette feté.
> >>
> >> On 1/20/23 10:55, Leslie MYRICK wrote:
> >>> Hi Scott,
> >>> You can find a copy of Andrews on the Internet Archive site, where you
> >> can
> >>> borrow it (requires registration).
> >>> This is always my first stop when I can't get to a library quickly.
> >>> https://archive.org/details/nookfarmmarktwai0000andr
> >>> Leslie
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:41 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/
> >>>>
> >> --
> >> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
> >>
> --
> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
>