March 6 Saturday – In Hartford Sam wrote to William Seaver that the lecture had “snugly filled every seat” and gained $1,233 for the cause. “Thus gratifyingly endeth the earthly lecturing career of yours truly.” John Hay had not answered Sam’s letter, written sometime between Feb. 12 and Feb. 20, so Sam ended the letter to Seaver with “Is John Hay living? Love to him” [MTL 6: 402-3]. The Hartford Courant reported:

No lecture that we have ever heard has been more provocative of mirth. The audience were kept the whole evening in genuine and wholesome laughter…The lecture is without doubt the best Mr. Clemens has yet delivered in this city.

Clemens also wrote thanks to E.R. Hoar, Ralph Waldo Emerson and George Heywood. Transcript, Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight. April 19, 1875 [MTP].