1 Moses Sperry Beach, the former editor and proprietor of the New York Sun, and his then seventeen-year-old daughter Emeline were among the “prominent Brooklynites” who made the Quaker City voyage of 1867, during which Emeline became part of the “charmed circle” surrounding Clemens. Clemens stayed overnight at the Beaches’ Brooklyn home in January 1868 (and seems not to have won Mrs. Beach’s approval), and he corresponded with Emeline until February 1868; no evidence has been found that he had since improved his acquaintance with the family. Doubtless Beach’s hospitality was to follow Clemens’s lecture at Plymouth Church on 21 November (L2, 15, 51 n. 2, 145, 172, 181–85; Hirst and Rowles, 17, 29–30).

2 Olivia Lewis Langdon.

3 Beach and his wife, the former Chloe Buckingham, had three daughters (including Emeline) and two sons.