November 4 Thursday – The text of Sam’s Nov. 2 speech in Hartford was published in the Chicago Tribune [MTNJ 2: 377n63].

Orion Clemens wrote to his brother.

      I received your newspaper extract, and your bitter comment on the margin. They will make a good chapter in the autobiography. That great work will be complete about the first of June.

      I deeply regret that I did not send you a deed for all the Tennessee land when you had a chance to trade with Mr. Langdon. But I feared you would unconsciously cheat your prospective father-in-law. It seems now that he would have got back all that he paid [MTP].

MacKinnon Pen Co., NYC wrote to Clemens, enclosing a Iridium pointed pen for his use, trusting “that you will find it to give far greater satisfaction than the Stylo”[MTP].