June 24 Thursday – The Clemens family were aboard the steamer India.

Richard L. Ogden wrote from Newport, R.I. to Sam enclosing a letter from General James Barnet Fry to Ogden dated June 18. Fry wrote of knowing Sam in San Francisco. He wanted a short paper from Sam “giving his views upon war in general.” A newspaper squib from the Evening Post, “Personal” was attached to Fry’s one-page letter telling of the Clemens family’s leaving Hartford to Elmira for the summer. Ogden pointed out that Fry had recently been General Hancock’s Adjutant [MTP].