October 21 Thursday – Phineas T. Barnum, wrote, clipping enclosed of a glowing review of Barnum’s show in the Boston Globe of Oct. 13.

My dear Clemens / We are glad to get your letter with the assurance that you have all got home safely although tired out. Hope & believe you’ll find the gas stove just the thing. It worked famously in London.

Your visit here was all too short—no chance to see our surroundings—. Better luck next time.

My Nancy & I will be right glad to visit you for a day when opportunity offers. We are busy till New Years.

We start next Monday for Kansas City & Omaha & then wend our way back—lecturing at our leisure. . . .

We hope that the little glimpse you got of Waldemere life will tempt you & your wife to try it again with babies, nurses & as much retinue as you like to bring.

Your big envelope of queer letters keeps swelling.

With kindest regards to Mrs Clemens and sweet sister Susie I am as ever / Truly yours / P. T. Barnum [MTPO].

Jesse Madison Leathers wrote from Louisville, Ky. “Your favor of the 5 inst. is at hand. While I take the same view of this ‘Durham Estate’ and the limited chance of the American heirs to recover it…yet I think it is worth looking into.” He also speculated about the Lambton who first came to Virginia [MTP].