June 1 Wednesday – Charles Webster wrote to Sam about W.L. Alden’s offer of a Garibaldi autobiography. He thought it impossible to gain a copyright on such works:

I think we had better let foreign publications alone until we get international copyright [MTLTP 218n1 (top)].

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam that Ma’s cough was better; that his memory was that of an ox — memorizing two lines of a poem he could not recall the next day; he was glad to get “the book” [MTP].