October 20 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster, advising him to get a new set of plates for the printers. If Sam remembered rightly, 150,000 impressions was the life of the plates. After that, the impressions would not print clearly. [MTP].

Karl Gerhardt received the “Diploma of Honor” from New Orleans for his exhibit there, which included his bust of Mark Twain, now on exhibit at Vorce’s Gallery in Hartford, along with the marble statuette, “The Echo” [Hartford Courant Oct. 20, 1885 p.2 “Honors to Karl Gerhardt”]. See insert of “The Echo” rear view.

Jane Clemens wrote to Sam & family about the weather, “like a beautiful spring day.” She added an anecdote about George Hagerman striking a car man [MTP].