July 25 Wednesday – Maze Edwards wrote from the St. James Hotel, NYC.  “Please consent to be here Friday Aug. 31, and either ‘speak a piece’ or say a few words between acts, and let us know your decision in a few days…” [MTP]. Note: Edwards was a theater manager who would become a road agent for Clemens.

Joe Twichell wrote from Hartford after hearing “that a full and circumstantial account of last weeks affair at your house has appeared in the Boston Herald. I want you to understand that it has not been through me that it has attained this publicity. Charley W. says it was written by young Richardson (son of A.D.R)…He must have got his particulars from the police” [MTP]. Note: Richardson boy likely son of Albert Deane Richardson; see Jan. 22, 1868.