February 17 Thursday – Western Union bill of Feb. 28 shows a message sent to New York, recipient unspecified.

Bissell & Co. wrote to Sam, receipting him for 500 shares of Am. Exchange in Europe, enclosing the certificate [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Receipt for paid-up stock in American Exchange Europe. $5,000”

Mary Keily wrote Sam another “lunatic” letter from the Lancaster, Pa. Insane asylum. Not much sense to be relayed here but she was still sorrowful that she “was in the land of the living” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From the lunatic”

February 17–March 16 Wednesday – Sometime between these dates Sam wrote from Hartford to his sister Pamela Moffett, sending Samuel Moffett’s Berkeley, California address. He noted that Sam lost the letter Clemens had sent, and had responded, “don’t ever send me anything you value” [MTP]. Note: If Sam and Livy spent a few days in New York shortly after Feb. 15 or 16, it’s likely this letter wasn’t sent as early as Feb. 17. This letter was “Embedded text in Pamela A. Moffett to Orion and Mollie Clemens, 19 March 1881.”