CHAPTER XII

A Trip to Bermuda

Now comes a long break, during which Mark
Twain either kept no notes or they have disap-
peared. He was so busy, now, perhaps he had
little time for notes. Following success of The
Innocents Abroad he married Olivia Langdon,
of Elmira, New York; took up residence in Buf-
falo, where he had become one of the owners
and editors of the Buffalo Express; wrote Rough-
ing It\ lectured; sold out in Buffalo and re-
moved to Hartford; wrote (with Charles Dudley
Warner) The Gilded Age\ wrote a play ("Colonel
Sellers"), based on that book; wrote and pub-
lished The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, began
the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] built a
house; made trips to London and lectured an
entire season there, besides doing a quantity of
short stories, articles, etc., the story of all of
which has been elsewhere set down.1

It was not until the spring of 1877 a new
notebook begins—a record of a trip he made
with his dear Hartford friend, Joseph H.
Twichell, a minister who had helped to marry
him to "Livy" Langdon seven years before. The
book 5s labeled:

Trip to Bermuda with Twichell
May 16 (1877). Gobbled a youth's place in the line—
1 In Mark Twain—a BiografAyy chapters LXVII to CX.

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