October 28 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Ellen D. Conway, Moncure’s wife, apologizing for thinking he had answered her letter of two months before, but discovering that he had not. Ellen’s letter concerned the electrotypes, cost and disposition of which Sam had offered to absorb. Since the Clemens family would be sailing for England in April, Sam offered to ship the plates back then, with no hard feelings toward Andrew Chatto, who hadn’t liked what Elisha Bliss charged and had not used them [MTLE 1: 136].