June 16 Monday – Orion Clemens finished the June 15 letter:

When I offered to bring Ma down to breakfast this morning she found herself too weak on the left side, and liable to fall. She said she had not use of her left side, from her hip down [MTP].

Frank B. Earnest for Atlee & Earnest, attorneys in Laredo, Texas wrote to Sam wishing to sell his “now very rare” copy of “Mark Twain’s Autobiography and First Romance.” Earnest wrote: “In 1879 I was engaged in editing the ‘Daily Tribune’ at Knoxville, Tennessee” and told of getting a signed photo of Mark Twain after publishing “some very pleasant thing” about him [MTP]. See Dec. 18, 1879 entry.