Shipboard, and in due time a little group gathered regularly eachĪfternoon to hear Mark Twain read what he had written of their day’sĭoings, though some of it he destroyed later because Mrs. It requires not many days for acquaintances to form on Fairbanks, of Cleveland, a middle-Īged, cultured woman, herself a correspondent for her husband’s paper, It gave him an immediate audience, always inspiring to an author.įurthermore, the comments offered were often of the greatest value,Įspecially suggestions from one Mrs. That was entertainment for them, and it was good for him, for Mark Twain’s sayings and stories kept the company sufficientlyĮntertained, and sometimes he would read aloud to his fellow-passengersįrom the newspaper letters he was writing, and invite comment andĬriticism. Not go, none of them but Mark Twain, but no one minded, presently, for Port to port of antiquity and romance! The advertised celebrities did What a wonderful thing it must have seemed in that time for a party ofĮxcursionists to have a ship all to themselves to go a-gipsying in from Union lecture, and a month later, June 8, 1867, he sailed on the “QuakerĬity,” with some sixty-six other “pilgrims,” on the great Holy LandĮxcursion, the story of which has been so fully and faithfully told in It was early in May–the 6th–that Mark Twain had delivered his Cooper
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