May 8 Wednesday – Routledge & Sons received 10,000 copies of A Curious Dream from their printers [MTL 5: 73n4].

Sam wrote from Elmira to Charles E. Perkins, his attorney, stating his receipt from Bliss of a check for $10,562.13 for the first three months royalties of Roughing It. Sam wanted Perkins to notify Bliss of the protest that the seven and a half percent royalty did not approximate half of Bliss’ profits. Sam had asked Perkins to prepare a lawsuit against Bliss [MTL 5: 83-4].

Sam, Livy, and Sam’s mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, left for Cleveland. The children stayed in Elmira under the care of a nursemaid and servants. The trip was about 330 miles made in ten hours by train, by the New York & Erie railroad to Dunkirk, New York and the Lake Shore Railway to Cleveland [MTL 5: 85n1].