1 This manuscript fragment survives among Fuller’s personal papers and was presumably addressed to him. The top half of the single sheet (written on one side only), which contained between thirty and sixty words, has been cut away. Fuller wrote an undated note on the verso of the backed manuscript: “This puzzling paragraph was evidently cut from something which Mark decided not to send me. F.F.” The letter was written sometime before the last two months of 1868, for the text of the first surviving sentence (lacking only “& could not”) appeared in a 28 November San Francisco newspaper item, which read in its entirety: The stationery, ink, and handwriting of the manuscript are virtually identical to those of the previous two letters, both written from Hartford—an indication it too might have been written on 5 October. It was probably written no later than 30 October, the last day Clemens spent in Hartford before returning to New York, where he had no need to write to Fuller. It is likely, but not certain, that the San Francisco Examiner reprinted the item from a still-unidentified eastern newspaper. Fuller was a likely source for such an item: it was he who earlier gave the New York Evening Telegram information gleaned from one of Clemens’s 1867 letters (see 24 Nov 67 to Fuller, n. 6).