Twain was hired by the senator to be his personal secretary for $6 per day. Broke from Europe (Innocents Abroad) Bill Stewart gave him his apartment to use. Sam tormented the housekeeper – pretending to be drunk and smoking all over the house.
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Sam does Europe
Mark Twain sails aboard the SS Quaker City for a 6 month tour of the Mediterranean, 8 June.
Orion writes an attack on Sam
published in the San Francisco Time he referred to “the wretched reptiles who slunk through the war, trailing their slimy tracks in crooked lines through the edges of both parties — at first giving hearty assistance to the rebel side, then deserting it to render lukewarm aid to the Government…”