July 8 Friday – Howells wrote to Clemens: “Guiteau’s shot knocked the breath out of me, or I should have written sooner to boast that thanks in your absence I saw the boat race in all its glory—altogether a most beautiful and exciting thing” [MTP]. (Not in MTHL) This could have been the July 1 Regatta between Yale and Harvard.

H. Peet Penosbscott, M.D.  wrote to tell Clemens about a cure he’d worked on for several years for Elephantiasis Cranium. He didn’t ask anything of Clemens [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From a lunatic”

Charles Webster wrote to Clemens of Scrap Book matters: “what I call a splendid success at Providence” [MTP].