June 11 Tuesday – In Hartford, Sam wrote a short note to George Washington Cable, who evidently had asked for copies of a pamphlet Sam used to have, Samuel Watson Royston’s short novel, The Enemy Conquered, or Love Triumphant. “They are lost!” Sam responded, “I have searched everywhere & cannot find a vestige of that pamphlet.” He closed “in haste” as they were “just leaving for Elmira” [MTP; Gribben 593; MTNJ 3: 490n29].

It’s likely the Clemens family left for Elmira by way of New York this same day [MTNJ 3: 490n31].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam, and enclosed reports (not extant). 686 books sold the prior week. Bok had been by asking about Sam’s new book; Hall told him it would issue about Dec. 10 [MTP].