1 As the next letter indicates, Church and his brother, William, the Galaxy’s editors, had offered $2,400—contingent upon their retaining copyright to Clemens’s “humorous department.” Under the terms Clemens proposed here, his “Memoranda” appeared monthly in the Galaxy from May through December 1870 and in January, February, and April 1871 (SLC 1870 [MT00901], 1870 [MT00917], 1870 [MT00936], 1870 [MT00943], 1870 [MT00955], 1870 [MT00968], 1870 [MT00985], 1870 [MT01004], 1871 [MT01028], 1871 [MT01037], 1871 [MT01043]).

2 Since Clemens did not lecture on Sundays, he could have made $2,000 in two weeks, not counting expenses, if his fee had averaged about $167. But even by the season of 1871–72 it had risen only to $125 or $150 from the $75 or $100 he received in 1869–70 (10 June 71 to Redpath and Fall, n. 6; 19 July 71 to Redpath; 23 July 71 to Bowen; L3, 214–15, 384 n. 9).