July 4 Saturday – Sam’s A.D. for this date continued to focus with “spectacular venom” (Hill 209) against Lillian Aldrich for the June 30 Memorial of her late husband, which Sam attended.  

Harper’s Weekly ran an anonymous article, “Mark Twain’s New Home at Redding,” p. 24, 29. Tenney: “On the purchase of the land, building of the house, and the neighbors. Illustrated with photographs of the house, local scenes, and MT playing billiards with Albert Bigelow Paine” [45].