April 12 Friday – Sam and Livy went to New York and stayed at the Murray Hill Hotel [Apr.15 to Crane]. He gave a reading there the next day at Miss Brown’s.

Sam’s notebook: [check] # 4830. Apl. 12. $40. — 2,000 miles [3: 470].

Abraham G. Mills wrote to Sam about the Apr. 8 baseball banquet, observing, “you never made an address in your life that has made you so many new friends.” He regretted his duties prevented him from showing more attention to Sam and Joe Twichell [MTP].

John E. Mangan for Artist Printer sent Sam a circular about a planned newspaper. “Can you benefit mankind at large by some of your experience?” Sam wrote “Please decline with the usual excuse” [MTP].