June 12 Tuesday – Sam wrote from the Langdon home in Elmira to Charles Perkins, his attorney and business consultant. Sam enclosed $20 and asked, “When is the dramatic vacation coming! It will be a relief to get Bergen down to $15 a week.” H.W. Bergen was the agent hired to handle and report receipts from stage plays.

Clara had a “raging fever” and Sam wanted a doctor’s permission to take the family to Quarry Farm. He also included a note about John T. Raymond’s wife, who had taken a part in the Gilded Age play.

“Whenever receipts fail to pay Raymond’s wife, you need not pay her out of my pocket. I suppose you notified Raymond to stop her salary” [MTLE 2: 79].

Henry W. Longfellow wrote from Cambridge, Mass. to Sam

Dear Mr Clemens, / I have seen Lowell, and talked with him on the subject of your letter. We are both of us willing to do anything and everything to advance the interests of Howells, but what is to be done is not so clear to us.

      We do not believe that any written paper has the slightest influence. It is only filed away and forgotten.

      We have tried this method of proceeding with a friend of ours, who asks for a much humbler place and without perceptible result. … / Howells himself I have been unable to see, as he has gone to Newport for the summer [MTP]. Note: James Russell Lowell. Twain was trying to get Howells a consulship.