You may be remembering Clemens's first encounter with Lilian Aldrich, Thomas Bailey Aldrich's wife, in 1871; and Justin Kaplan's account of it in Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, pp. 144-45. See also Mark Twain in Eruption, 292-303; and Lilian Aldrich's Crowding Memories, pp. 127-132. Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3, 481-86, gives Clemens's lecture schedules for the 1868-69 and 1869-70 tours. He lectured in Newtonville (one of the villages that made up Newton), Mass., on 29 November 1869, at the Congregational Church, and according to the Newton Journal his talk "elicited shouts of laughter. Three divines of the town were noticed as present, apparently in a most enjoyable frame of mind" (414 n. 2). See also Mark Twain's Letters,.Volume 4, passim, for Clemens's first encounters with Aldrich and pp, 484-86 (for a description of a memorable lunch including Aldrich, Clemens, Harte, Keeler, Howells, and James T. Fields. The lecture calendar for 1871-72, which also includes a number of Massachusetts towns, is on pp. 557-60. Vic Fischer Mark Twain Project