April 15 Monday – Bill from Arnold, Constable & Co., New York marked paid for one hat $4 [MTP].

April 13 Saturday – Sam saw Charles Langdon off at the pier [MTL 5: 75].

April 12 Friday – Sam was at the Astor House in New York [MTL 5: 75].

April 11 Thursday – Sam left for New York, probably with Charles Langdon, who sailed for England on Apr. 13. Twichell had planned to be in New York on Apr. 9, so it’s possible Sam went earlier and met him there [MTL 5: 75].

April 8 Monday – Bill paid to W.B. Willard, flour & grain dealer, $6.55 [MTP].

April 6 Saturday – The London Examiner under “Life in the Western States” ran a review that declared:

Roughing It is, in some respects, superior to The Innocents at Home. It is more consecutive and less fragmentary, but both are equally racy and entertaining [Budd, Reviews 103]. See Feb. 1872 entry

April 2 Tuesday – Joe Twichell replied to the notice of Susy’s birth.

April 1 Monday – Mary Mason Fairbanks wrote from Cleveland about her visit to Elmira, the babies, her desire for Sam to visit for his health [MTL 5: 74-5].

In New York, Bret Harte wrote congratulating Sam on Susy’s birth:

April – Sam’s sketch “Horace Greeley’s Ride” (Roughing It, Ch. 20) ran in American Publishing Co.’s in-house promotional monthly, American Publisher [Camfield, bibliog.].

March 31 Sunday – Sam wrote a short note from Elmira to James R. Osgood, a Boston publisher with a list of prestigious authors, and editor of the Atlantic Monthly.