1 On 28 June Charles E. Perkins, Clemens’s lawyer, had forwarded Franey’s statement of 1876 property taxes to Elmira. Assessed values were prepared in the fall of each year and announced the following March, with taxes on them payable by 15 July (see 16 Oct 76 to Perkins, n. 1). Based on the fall of 1875 assessed value of $63,360, Clemens’s bill came to $1,277.41. Clemens may have intended the present note, written on Franey’s statement, for the First National Bank of Hartford, or for George P. Bissell and Company, Hartford bankers and securities dealers, whom he employed at least from 1877 until 1891. The requested check was sent to Clemens who then, on 1 July, enclosed it in a letter to Perkins that is not known to survive. Perkins paid the tax bill two days later (Perkins to SLC, 17 June 1876, 28 June 1876, 3 July 1876,CU-MARK; Geer 1876, 34, 292).