June 4 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Orion that “Everything is packed & the house is ready for the decorators.” They would leave in an hour for Branford, planning to stay through July, then to Elmira till mid-September. Sam used a West Point invitation envelope which had just arrived to send Orion a picture of baby Jean [MTP].

The Clemens family left Hartford for the summer to the Montowese House, Branford, Conn. [MTBus 158; MTNJ 2: 396n135].

A.V.S. Anthony of Osgood’s office wrote to Clemens that he’d selected a cigar priced at $13 (likely per 100), the “Zarquelas” [MTP].

John H. Carter (“Commodore Rollingpin”) wrote from St. Louis to ask if he might use one of Clemens’ sketches in his annual almanac [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From ‘Commodore Rollingpin’, a far Western ‘funny man’ ”

Charles Webster wrote to Clemens that there was “no where near $3000 worth of stock in the Kaolatype works”[MTP].