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/ >