September 17 Friday – Charles E. Perkins wrote to Clemens with the Bissell Bank balance and other financial information. Dan Slote had not answered requests for a statement [MTP].

David Gray wrote to Clemens inviting him to come up Tuesday next, as he’d return from a trip to Detroit Monday. Bring Livy and the P&P MS. and they could smoke “a few pipes over it” [MTP]. Note: quite a few folks knew of the P&P being worked.

Harriet Josephine Gerhardt’s bust by Karl Gerhardt was mentioned in an article appearing in the Hartford Evening Post of September 17, 1880. The newspaper noted the bust was on exhibition at Burke’s. See insert.