May 7 Thursday – Charles W. Stoddard wrote to Sam asking him to grant an interview to his English friend (unspecified) [MTHL 2: 646n5].

Orion Clemens, back in Keokuk, wrote to Sam of a new invention for a door hanging; of Puss Quarles’ thanks for support; of Pamela writing that some newspaper reported Sam and Joe Goodman combined had lost $140,000 on the typesetter; and that Hall and Whitford in Fredonia thought the Clemenses were going to Europe; Orion has suffered some paralysis in his right hand; “Annie and her folks are well. Her father-in-law is losing his mind.” [MTP].