June 18 Monday – W.W. Bierce on Memphis Gas & Light letterhead wrote to Sam (Bierce to Charter Oak Co. June 18 enclosed): “I like you! But I’m damned if I like everybody in Hartford.” Bierce had inquired around about the defunct Charter Oak Insurance Co and brought his complaint to Mark Twain [MTP].

Chatto & Windus wrote to Sam, advising they’d accepted Tauchnitz’s offer of £40 “for a selection of about one third of” the Library of American Humor [MTP].

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam: “Mollie undertook to write to you, but she could not. She bade me mail the printed slips, and to say to you that nobody can tell how thankful she is for your kindness that enabled her father to pass his last days in comfort.” Sam’s last $100 for her father’s care arrived the day of the funeral, and Orion argued to use it to pay the $90 in funeral expenses. Orion also wrote about the Memory Game, making a pamphlet to go with it on the kings’ history [MTP].