April 28 Friday – Dr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Rice moved Sam from the Murray Hill Hotel into their home at 81 Irving Place, N.Y. [Apr. 30 to Warner]. Note: MTHHR p.11 gives 123 E. 19th St. as Rice’s address.

In Florence Livy wrote to Sam:

Youth My Own Darling: I am spoiled entirely I have had so many letters from you that now I feel if more than two days passes without my having a letter from you that it is all wrong. I think the steamers aught to bring the mails every day for my especial benefit. …

This morning I rec’d your dispatch saying you expect to sail on the 13th. I am so glad that the time is set…

Your letters about the machine made me wildly excited. My last letter si the one written just after you reached Chicago, you have yet done anything there. I think one letter must have been lost because I had one the 17th & next one the 19th so I think the 18th must have been lost. I assure you I dream & plan these days and spend a good deal of money in my mind. It seems incredible that we should really be likely to have as much money as we want [The Twainian Nov-Dec 1977 p.4].