April 9 Tuesday – Sam gave another private reading, probably in New York. His notebook selections included, “Encounter with an Interviewer,” “The Skinned Man,” selections from HF and the Jumping Frog, and all of the Lucerne girl tale about a stranger acting as if she knew him [MTNJ 3: 446]. Livy was disappointed being unable to visit Theodore and Susan L. Crane, who evidently had left the city [Sam to Crane, Apr. 15]. The Clemenses returned home to Hartford either this day or the next.

Bissell & Co. Bank wrote to Sam: “We credit your account with $1,312 …Chatto note for £270 12/2” [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote to Sam, financial report enclosed (not extant). $800 more collected [MTP].