June 3 Wednesday – Sam went to Hartford, planning to arrive there just after noon. He stayed at the Whitmore home [June 1 to Whitmore].

Thomas F. Gatts wrote to Sam.

Your esteemed favor of May 30th, received this morning. I assure you that we give due consideration to every word and sentence of your letter.

While we would very much like to develop the National Mark Twain Association into local and State reading clubs; but we humbly bow to the will and desire of the man whose name we all love to honor.

We feel yet that there may be some way to have a day set apart as a Mark Twain Day at the great fair in St.

Louis to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase [MTP].