February 13 Thursday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam finished his Feb. 5, 7, 11 to Francis H. Skrine.

Feb. 13. It is so good of you & Mrs. Skrine to offer us your house, & we thank you cordially & wish we could take you up, but we are barred. I suppose we shall summer on the coast of Maine. It looks like it; we are inquiring after a dwelling-house at York Harbor.

I am going yachting a fortnight hence, for six weeks in the West Indies & around there, but it will not break into my work. I shall shut myself up daily & bang along at it [MTP].

an unidentified person (“a public instructor”) wrote from the Philippines, somewhat disturbed about the word “œsophagus” in Sam’s “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story” [MTP: My Debut as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories, p. 313].