May 5 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “Eulabee Dix / Mr. Clemens remembers that you want a sitting for his hand./ Margery. / Mustn’t forget that Mr. Clemens is counting on your & Carolines visit. It isn’t entirely selfish” [MTP: IVL TS 52]. Note: this entry is on a separate scrap of paper, undated and placed in this date; it may not relate.

Homer G. Curless wrote from Springfield, Ohio to ask Sam’s advice. Which books should a young man put in his library? [MTP]. Note: IVL: “Mr. Clemens would be glad if he were able to give advice, but he finds that the taste of each person must determine the matter”

Howells & Stokes wrote to Sam about “addition of certain apparatus” to “facilitate the connection of a second generating unit” for acetlylene gas [MTP].