March 8 Wednesday – George P. Bissell wrote with a Bradstreet’s report on the Am. Bank Note Co., which he highly recommended [MTP].

Hooker & Co. wrote a short Note: “Your telegram just received. We will put the carriage in the works immediately and push it forward to completion as fast as possible” [MTP].

Henry Dwight Spencer (1854-1929) wrote from Bloomington, Illinois to ask the question his niece had posed: “What sort of a man did Tom Sawyer become?” The question referred to the final paragraph from TS,  when Twain wrote “Some day it may seem worth while to take up the story of the younger ones again and see what sort of men and women they turned out to be…” [MTP]. Note: Sam never wrote of Tom or Huck as adults. Spencer wrote on legal stationery; he practiced law in his father’s (Hamilton Spencer; 1815-1891) firm.