---- Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Mark Twain did attend numerous dinners at the Garrick Club. He
> discussed these in his book MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION, p. 331-333.
> 
> An early visit was in July 1873 at a dinner hosted by Anthony
> Trollope.  A lengthy annotation about that event is online in his
> letter to Mary Mason Fairbanks.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/3fmaxdq
> 
> Joaquin Miller also wrote about this dinner in 1882.  His article is
> online in the New York Times archives at:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/4x45lvo
> 
> Barb