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On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 2:19 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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/
>