May 1 Monday – The Hartford Courant ran this notice on page two:

Mr. Isaac White  made some fine portraits of Mark Twain last week, cabinet size, which he has for sale at his place of business, 15 Pratt street.  Note: “Cabinet”—“a popular sized professional portrait, with mount measuring 6⅝ in. by 4¼ in. Copies of two of White’s portraits of Clemens survive, with the sealskin coat he purchased in Buffalo in Sept. 1871.