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/