May 18 Saturday – In Hartford Sam answered the May 11 letter from Edward P. Clark for N.Y. Evening Post, apologizing for the week delay.

Enclosed please find $25. I owe you a thousand apologies for my unpromptness in answering; but during the past ten days I have been in one of those whirlwinds of activity… [MTP]. Note: it was Sam’s habit to answer most mail he intended to answer promptly.

Sam also wrote to Edmund C. Stedman, thanking him for his efforts with the Library of American Literature and adding a note about his pictures to be used in the series:

I have tried to get Mrs. Clemens to give up that photograph, but she happens to think it the best one, too, & so — well, they’re all alike. The women, I mean [MTP].

Thomas S. Fox for Albany Evening Union wrote to Sam: “Yours of May 9th at hand in which you informed me that the Kaolatype Co did not care to sell any rights ‘local or state’ — did this mean they would sell rights for the US? If so, Fox wanted an interview [MTP].