June 6 Wednesday – In Hartford Sam responded to Andrew Chatto that “everything proposed” by Christian (Baron) Tauchnitz was “satisfactory” [MTP]. No doubt this had to do with publishing Sam’s Library of Humor in Europe.

It’s not clear where Livy was at this time (New York?), because Sam, in Hartford, telegraphed her:

When you see House tell him to save that remark about publishers it may come good yet [MTP].

Ezra T. Gilliland for Edison Phonograph wrote to Sam:

Changes in the form of the phonograph have delayed the issue of these machines…. You will receive an instrument from among the first ones that are put out…. Our efforts to deliver it promptly will not be diminished by the knowledge of the fact that one of “Mark Twain’s” books is dependent upon it [MTNJ 3: 386n292]. Note: Sam’s plan was to dictate part or all of CY on the phonograph, then have the dictation typed. See July 27 from Chatto.

Henry W. Grady for Atlanta Constitution wrote asking Sam to come to Atlanta to lecture, and noting he’d never done so; he enclosed a copy of the paper; he wanted Sam “very badly” [MTP].