This is as I suspected. Unfortunately for me the Internet Archive Site has a pay wall. I am allowed to see the title page of Andrews' article. I remain curious as to the date of said entertainment. On 1/20/23 10:58, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > 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/ >> -- /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/