1 Mary Berkeley Hunter Smith (b. 1830?) could claim cousinship to Clemens: her younger sister, Ella Hunter, was married to James Andrew Hays Lampton, half-brother of Jane Lampton Clemens. Smith was married to Arden Richard Smith (b. 1825?), an Englishman who settled in St. Louis about 1849 and be came an editor on the St. Louis Missouri Republican. By 1869 he was listed in the St. Louis directory as a principal in the firm of Scott and Smith, auctioneers. The Smiths’ son, who took the name Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (1864–1918), became a prominent actor and playwright. The St. Louis address on the envelope accompanying this letter—1215 Chesnut Street—was near the residence of the Moffett-Clemens household in the late 1860s, at 1312 Chesnut Street. In 1886, in writing to Clemens, Arden Smith would refer to their “old Missouri acquaintance and the family friendship” (Smith to SLC, 2 Dec 86, CU-MARK; St. Louis Census, 291; L1, 15 n. 7, 19 n. 3; Inds, 330; Edwards, 705, 723).

2 Not extant.