April 22 Wednesday – Sam read the story of “A Scotch-Irish Christening” at the Authors’ Reading, New York City, for the YWCA, as invited and agreed to on Mar. 22 to Annie B. Jennings.

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The New York Tribune of Apr. 23 reported that the Reading was attended by a “large and sympathetic audience….Mr. Clemens told the story of ‘A Scotch-Irish Christening’ with such effect that he was forced to tell another story to satisfy his hearers” [MTNJ 3: 612n133].

John C. Kinney, a major in a local “Foot Guard,” and editor of the Hartford Courant, died after a short illness. He was well known and respected, having lived in the city for the past nineteen years.