1 Clemens delivered “Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands” in Albany on 10 January 1870, and “Artemus Ward, Humorist” on 28 November 1871. He may not have known McElroy (one of several McElroys in Albany in the early 1870s), who seems to have hoped that Clemens’s recollection of a “pleasant occasion” and its participants would be sufficient entrée for a lecture invitation. The “gentleman” conceivably was one of the lecture committee members who served as Clemens’s contacts in 1870 and 1871: Robert W. C. Mitchell, a bookkeeper, or Charles H. Burton, a dealer in vinegar and groceries. The “lady” has not been even tentatively identified (L4, 16 n. 2, 19 n. 1, 481 n. 9, 558; Albany Directory: 1870, 124; 1871, 33, 131–32; 1872, 40, 139; 1873, 40, 143; Redpath and Fall, 5–6).