April 28 Tuesday – Sam, Livy, and thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens went to New York for a four-day outing, which included a reading up at Vassar in Poughkeepsie on May 1. Sam conferred with Webster and General Grant and gave a reading on Apr. 29 [MTNJ 3: 140n48].

The American Copyright League Benefit was held in the afternoons of Apr. 28 and 29 at Madison Square Theater, New York City with a host of authors reading, including W.D. Howells, Julian Hawthorne, Hjalmar Boyesen, Edmund C. Stedman,  Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. Edward Eggleston, and others. The New York Times advertised the event, announcing on Apr. 25 that John Greenleaf Whittier wrote his apologies [page 8]. On April 29 a long page 4 article did not list Sam among the many authors who had read or who would read that day. Fatout lists Sam reading of “A Trying Situation” for the second day, a story Sam had delivered several times on his reading tour with Cable [656].

Sam’s notebook cites Chatto’s draft for £178.0.5 paid—$861.35 for royalties on the English versions of his books [MTNJ 3: 141].