June 5 Monday – Dr. William Baldwin was to come and examine Livy [June 4 to Baldwin].

Joe Twichell wrote to Sam, hearing from Mollie Dunham about her chance meeting of Sam at the Murray Hill Hotel (Joe thought in April) and that Sam reported himself sick. “Beyond that we had learned nothing whatsoever of your wretched experience while in the country till you had taken your departure.” Had he known he would have tried to see him in N.Y. and stayed as long as needed. Joe enclosed a printed court martial report sent to Sue Crane by a West Point acquaintance against a Pvt. Mark Twain!

It is great good news to hear that you are soon coming home. Your house looks as though it was going out of mourning. I saw the gleam of new paint on the quarter deck as I came by the other day. [MTP].