1 On 6 May Conway promised to send Clemens the “earliest” copy of the English edition of Tom Sawyer (see 27 May 76 to Conway, n. 1). The book was published on 9 June. Soon after, in a letter that does not survive, Conway must have notified Clemens that a copy had been mailed, along with a first review (Johnson 1935, 29).

2 For Bliss’s explanation of his unresponsiveness, see 22 July 76 to Bliss, n. 1. The American Publishing Company did not send the plates of the Tom Sawyer illustrations to Conway until 7 July 1876, nearly a month after publication of the first English edition. Although an illustrated edition reportedly was ready by 9 December, no such edition has been confirmed. In 1885, however, Chatto and Windus brought out a “new edition” incorporating most of True Williams’s illustrations from the American first edition (BAL, 2:3367; TS 1980, 20, 503).

3 The New York Evening Post of 28 June reprinted the fence-painting episode from chapter 2 of the English edition of Tom Sawyer. No other extracts have been identified in the Evening Post. For the paper’s source, see 24 July 76 to Conway, n. 1.

4 See 16 Apr 76 to Conway, n. 2.