July 14 Monday – Sam wrote from the Langham his thanks to Charles E. Flower for the stay at their home. “I may add here, that having learned all about how ale is made, I now take a new & ferocious interest in consuming it” [MTL 5: 416].

Sam’s March 1873 letter to Josh Billings ran in the July 14 issue of the New York Weekly [The Twainian, Feb. 1944 p.1; MTL 5: 866 under “Shaw”].