1 In Talks to My Patients, Rachel Gleason remarked that for the new mother,

Gleason devoted an entire chapter to the general importance of sleep—“not the sleep which drunkenness, narcotics, and cordials bring, but such as Nature gives to those who invite and accept her gifts.” She suggested a variety of hot and cold baths or “a brisk walk in the open air” as remedies for sleeplessness (Gleason, 192, 201). It is not known how Olivia was “made” to sleep, but walking was not the means adopted, inasmuch as she was still confined to her bed. In March 1871, during her lengthy recovery from her first delivery, she drank ale as a “tonic,” although evidently not to induce sleep (L4, 358).

2 The unidentified “heavy purchase” may have been for the Clemenses’ new Hartford house. Warner’s indebtedness to Clemens has not been explained, but it was still unpaid on 1 January 1876: Clemens’s statement of account of that date with the American Publishing Company includes a charge of $2,050 for a “Note of C. D. Warner” (APC 1876). Although no record of the June royalty payment for The Gilded Age has been found, American Publishing Company bindery records indicate that 12,642 copies were bound in March through May. If all of these were sold, Clemens’s half of the royalty paid in June would have been about $2,200 (APC 1866–79, 211).