1This letter replied to one that Clemens must have written on or about 22 September.

2Kellogg (1843–1903) was trying to get speaking engagements through the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, owned since late 1875 by George H. Hathaway and James B. Pond. She had won critical praise in 1874 as Laura Hawkins in the original New York production of Clemens’s Gilded Age play, Colonel Sellers. Presumably Clemens met her at that time. In December 1876, at Booth’s Theatre, in New York, she was in the company that supported Lawrence Barrett in King Lear and Richard III. In 1878 and 1879, through the Redpath Bureau, she gave well-received recitations from Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and others. She subsequently returned to the stage (L6: 19 and 25 Jan 1875 to Stillson, 355 n. 2; 22 Sept 1875 to Redpath, 541 n. 6; Appendix D, “Reviews of the Gilded Age Play,” 650; Odell 1927–49, 10:177; “Amusements,” New York Tribune, 1–18 Dec 1876, various pages; Lyceum 1878–79, 4, 35–36; “Death List of a Day,” New York Times, 21 Apr 1903, 9).