June 15 Monday – Sam wrote the good news from Elmira to Dr. John Brown:

“We call the new Megatherium (mate to the Megalopis) Clara of course” [MTL 6: 159].  

Sam also wrote to Charles Dudley Warner of the baby, Susy, and Livy. Sam also had loaned Warner $2,000 and wrote he was “depending” on him for the repayment and from Bliss for at least that much more in royalties. Sam cited his “heavy purchase for cash,” probably the house construction costs [MTL 6: 161]

June 15 ca. – In the unpublished “Children’s Record” Sam kept about his girls, he wrote of an incident when Clara (“Bay”) was one week old: 

When the Bay was a week old her adventures began. She was asleep on a pillow in a rocking chair in the parlor at Quarry Farm. I had forgotten her presence—if I knew it. I wound up a mechanical toy wagon and set it loose on the floor; I saw it was going to collide with the rocking chair, so I kicked the rocking chair across the house. The Bay lit on the floor with a thump, her head within two inches of the iron fender of the grate, but with the pillow undermost. So she came within three inches of an obituary [Harnsberger 16].