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/ >