June 29 Monday – Sam left Quarry Farm at 6 AM. Traveling all day to Mt. McGregor, New York, in the Adirondacks, and arriving at 8.40 [MTNJ 3: 164; June 30 to Livy, MTP].

John C. Black wrote, misidentifying Sam as an applicant for a pension [MTP: Pall Mall Gazette 3 Aug 1885].

Orion Clemens wrote: checks rec’d; progress on history research for game; Ma upset by Puss’s “supposed distress”; Puss’s finances; volunteered to run errands or answer law questions [MTP].