1 See 31 Oct 70 to Bliss and 5 Nov 70 to OC.

2 Hartford’s two theaters were Allyn Hall and Roberts’ Opera House. During the 1870–71 season, each booked a variety of events: Allyn Hall mainly concerts and lectures, Roberts’ Opera House theatrical and operatic performances (advertisements in Hartford Courant, 1870–71 passim). No evidence has been found that Bliss carried out Clemens’s suggestion.

3 Orion, accompanied or soon followed by Mollie, arrived in Hartford in mid-December 1870 to assume the editorship of the American Publisher, taking temporary lodgings. Bliss wrote Clemens on 20 December: “Your Brother is here & we are getting at work in earnest” (CU-MARK). No gratified letters from Orion or Mollie to Clemens are known to survive from December 1870, but by late January they had moved to “Pierson’s, next door to Bliss’s”—that is, to C. W. and David Pierson’s boarding house at 263 Asylum Street, where they remained until early July (OC to SLC, 25 Jan 71, 4 July 71 [CU-MARK]; MEC to SLC, 4 July 71 [CU-MARK]; Geer 1871, 193).