1This letter has been assigned to 1871 because Clemens is known to have used stationery of its kind intermittently between 6 September 1869 and 29 June 1871, and because he was not in Elmira on 18 April in 1870.

2Delivered on 11 January 1868 before the Washington Newspaper Correspondents’ Club, Clemens’s response to the toast “Woman: The Pride of the Professions, and the jewel of ours,” was published from a phonographic transcript in the Washington Evening Star on 13 January 1868 (SLC 1868). The following reprintings have been located so far: “A Eulogy of Woman by ‘Mark Twain,’” New York Evening Post, 15 Jan 68, 1; “Woman. Mark Twain’s Eulogy of the Fair Sex,” St. Louis Missouri Republican, 22 Jan 68, 3; “Woman—Mark Twain’s Opinion of Her,” Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 2 Feb 68, 1; “A Eulogy of Woman by ‘Mark Twain,’” San Francisco Examiner, 3 Feb 68, 1; “Woman—Mark Twain’s Opinion of Her,” Oakland News, 10 Apr 68, 4; “Eulogy on Woman,” Excelsior Monthly Magazine 1 (Aug 68): 99–100. Clemens sent a clipping of the Evening Star printing to his mother on 14 January 1868, and a clipping of the Excelsior printing to Elisha Bliss on 3 September 1868 (L2, 131–32 n. 5, 155–57, 245 n. 1, 415–16).