February 23 Monday – Frank Fuller wrote from NYC to Sam.

“Dear Mark: we shall carry out that plan, & you will get your stock, say $2, for $1 spent. What was spent? About $5,000, I said, Shall I bump it at that? They anticipate big dividends on the whisky still, & are going to make whisky, not sell machines. / See here! Send me the recipe for this food that they are making you endorse. Make your neighbor copy it for me. I’m the food-sharp, not that fellow at ‘Bathurst.’ ” Fuller attached a small clipping that quoted Clemens and read: “Recommended by Massachusetts Board of Health—Infants’ Food. The best in use. Cheap, easily made, equals mothers’ milk. Recipe $1. John Munro, Bathurst Village, N.B. “My twins (born three years apart) are happily past that stage, but I thank you all the same for your receipt, as does also one of our neighbors, who is in a position to take advantage of it.” – MARK TWAIN” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From Gov. Fuller, about that foolish & ruinous patent, for steam engine”.