1 Now lost.

2 Walter L. Sessions (see 28 Aug 74 to Belknap, n. 2).

3 Clemens had approached the secretaries of war, the navy, and the treasury, as well as the postmaster general, and apparently considered approaching the president, for assistance in securing an appointment to the naval academy for Samuel Moffett (28 Aug 74, 5 Sept 74, and 24 Sept 74 to Belknap; 25 Apr 75 to JLC and PAM; 25 June 75 to Howells, n. 7; 23 July 75 to PAM, n. 5).

4 In September 1874, Secretary of the Navy George Robeson had seemed helpful when Clemens wrote to him for assistance, but had subsequently been unable or unwilling to help effect Moffett’s appointment. None of the Clemens-Robeson correspondence has been found. Moffett never attended the naval academy. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley in 1881 and 1882, then finished his undergraduate education at Columbia University, which later awarded him A.M. and Ph.D. degrees. He became a respected journalist, and was an editor at Collier’s magazine when he died of a stroke in 1908 (“Editor Moffett Dies, Struggling in Surf,” New York Times, 2 Aug 1908, sec. 1:3; “Samuel E. Moffett,” Collier’s 41 [15 Aug 1908]: 23).