April 12? Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Howells, including a note from John T. Lewis, the “sable hero” of the runaway carriage incident. Sam sent it as an addition to the story [MTLE 5: 70].

About this date (given as a “fortnight ago” on Apr. 29—see entry), Sam purchased an additional 25 foot strip of property to their southern boundary, and the “very next day, just within the bounds of that strip…struck a spring of cold, sweet, limpid & abundant water” [MTLE 5: 90].

April 12 or 13 Tuesday – The Clemens family with nursemaid Rosa left Hartford and traveled to Boston to stay a week. On Apr. 13 Sam inscribed a copy of A Tramp Abroad for Mrs. Lilly G. Warner with Hartford and the date. Sam wrote his family on Sunday that he was leaving the next day (Apr. 12), however, so they may have been delayed a day or Sam may have postdated the inscription [MTLE 5: 71].