July 26 Monday – Livy gave birth to a seven pound baby girl. They named her Jane Lampton Clemens, after Sam’s mother, but from the first she was called Jean. She was the last child Sam and Livy would have. The delivery was without complications; Livy began to recover in a few days [Powers, MT A Life 444]. Sam wrote to Howells about the new baby:

“I have been up all night helping to receive Miss Clemens, who arrived perfectly sound but with no more baggage than I had when I was on the river” [MTLE 5: 137].

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam about progress on his autobiography and of his relief that a letter from Sam was not bad news about Livy, since Mollie had experienced a foreboding dream [MTP].

Mary Mason Fairbanks wrote to Sam. After a long and folksy letter, she added she liked TA and “felt at home in Heidelberg,” but pressed him to write another book in a “wholly different style” [MTP].