The memo is in Fall’s hand. Among Clemens’s contacts at his various lecture stops were: S. E. Wasson, a Brooklyn teacher (see 4 Dec 69 and 6 Dec 69, both to Redpathclick to open letter); T. B. Pugh, a Philadelphia impresario, whose popular “Star Course of Lectures” featured the leading performers of the day; James Oliver Perry Burnside (b. 1828); Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1847–1910), who later compiled several directories of military biography; John Marsellus (1846–1941), a clerk at the hosiery firm of William H. and Leonard C. Thorne, at 58 White Street, New York, and afterward a casket manufacturer; Thomas Pierce Barnefield (1844–99), a Rhode Island supreme-court reporter; the Reverend George H. Vibbert, a crusader for prohibition; Henry Wilbur Palmer (1839–1913), a Wilkes-Barre attorney and later a four-time Republican congressman from Pennsylvania; Ira F. Hart, an Elmira physician; poet Joel Benton (1832–1911), who managed the Amenia, New York, lecture course and was to be reached through the weekly Amenia Times, which he had edited from 1851 to 1856; George Rodney Meneely, proprietor of a bell foundry in West Troy, New York; Henry M. Crane; and William Penn Carpenter (see 8 Sept 69 and 21 Sept 69 to Craneclick to open letter and 23 Sept 69 to Carpenterclick to open letter).