1 In addition to The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, The Gilded Age, and Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old, Clemens ordered the following American Publishing Company books, issued between 1865 and 1874: Everybody’s Friend, by Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw); Unwritten History: Life amongst the Modocs, by Joaquin Miller; and The Secret Service, The Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape, and Beyond the Mississippi, both by Albert Deane Richardson. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians, by Fanny Kelly, was issued in 1871 by the Mutual Publishing Company of Hartford, a subsidiary of the American Publishing Company (SLC: 1869, 1872, 1873–74, 1875; Shaw 1874; Miller 1874; Richardson 1865; Richardson 1867; Kelly 1871 ; L2, 120–21 n. 4; L5, 417 n. 2; Hill 1964, 16).

2 Hastings had written (CU-MARK):

Hastings’s previous contributors of books were: William Dean Howells, Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and Harper’s Weekly editor George William Curtis, and author and Unitarian minister Thomas W. Higginson, former colonel of the first black regiment in the Union army . The managers of the National Home were: President Ulysses S. Grant; Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite (1816–88); Secretary of War William W. Belknap (1829–90); Benjamin F. Butler (1818–93), Union general and former Republican Congressman; John H. Martindale (1815–81), lawyer and Union soldier; Frederick Smyth (1819–99), former governor of New Hampshire; Lewis (not Louis) B. Gunckel (1826–1903), lawyer and former Republican congressman; John S. Cavender (1824–86), Union soldier; Hugh L. Bond (1828–93), lawyer, advocate of education for blacks, and federal judge; Erastus B. Wolcott (1804–80), military and civilian surgeon and Wisconsin railroad pioneer; Thomas O. Osborn (1832–1904), lawyer, Union soldier, and current minister resident to Argentina; and James S. Negley (1826–1901), Union soldier and former Republican congressman. The Southern Branch officers—Woodfin, Wright, and Keyes—have not been further identified. On Hastings’s envelope Clemens wrote: “Wants some books——sent a lot. SLC.” In his letter of 17 February to Hastings, which survives only in partial paraphrase, he reported that the books were ordered. Hastings replied, on the National Home letterhead (CU-MARK):

On the envelope of that letter Clemens wrote, “Acknowledging receipt of lot of books.”