June – Osgood & Co. published The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English, by Pedro Carolino, with an introduction by Mark Twain, written a year before. Paine calls it “an absurd little volume” [MTLP 1: 431]. (See June 4 entry.)

Sam inscribed Pedro Carolino’s The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English (Sam wrote the introduction to this reissue) in Hartford to Laura Dunham: “To Miss Laura Dunham from hers sincerely, The American Sponsor of the Book. Hartford, June 1883” [MTP]. Sam also inscribed another copy of this work to Laura Taft: “Miss Laura Taft / With the kindest / regards of / The Author / Hartford / June ’83.” [McBride 416].

Note: Miss Dunham may have been related to the old Hartford family. A Miss Mary Dunham visited Sam in Paris in the spring of 1879. Samuel C. Dunham was listed as a member of Sam’s Friday Evening Club for Feb. 3, 1882; and the aged A.C. Dunham (Austin Dunham) is mentioned in Andrews, p. 112 as well as being on the Mar. 10, 1883 list of Hartford citizens who formally requested George W. Cable to speak in the city.