April 6 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to the office of the Secretary of War, requesting a map of the Mississippi River. In Sam’s notebook: “Cut the map of the Mississippi into 20 pieces (full page size) & interleave it along through the book, beginning at St. Louis & going down section by section to N.O.” [MTNJ 2: 455].

Sam also wrote to William Thomas St. Clair letter not extant but referred to in St. Clair’s Apr. 10 reply.

Joel Chandler Harris replied to Sam’s of Apr. 2, fearing he’d left a bad impression on Twichell, and agreeing to meet Clemens in N. Orleans [MTP]. 

Former President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) wrote:

Dear Mr Clements [sic]:

      The children of all ages, of my numerous household, have enjoyed your new book so much that I must thank you on their and my own behalf.

      The child in his eighth year and the child in his sixtieth, and all between them in age and of both sexes were equally hearty in their applause and delight. The Prince and The Pauper is as entertaining as Robinson Crusoe to the Young Folks, and the older ones see in it a most effective presentation of the inhuman criminal laws, hardly yet wiped out, of English jurisprudence, and the only defence, or explanation rather, of the Puritan Codes of our New England ancestor.

      I congratulate you on your great success in this admirable book. / Sincerely, R.B. Hayes … [MTP]. Note: Clemens replied on Apr. 10.