May 9 Thursday – Sam’s notebook carries an entry about the defeat this day in England’s House of Lords, a bill legalizing marriage between a widower and his deceased wife’s sister. Sam concluded:

Without the Established Church the bill would have had a majority [MTNJ 3: 487].

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam that he’d received the check for $200 the day before. He expected sister Pamela that evening; they’d moved and were “nearly settled.” He asked what book Sam was writing, and passed on that the Chicago Daily Inter Ocean “says it is the adventures of a modern Yankee among the Knights of the 12th Century” [MTP].

Sam wrote to Thomas S. Fox for Albany Evening Union answering his inquiry about the Kaolatype process; they did not wish to sell local or state rights for the use of the process. Sam’s letter is not extant but is referred to in Fox’s of May 18 [MTP].