September 8 Monday – In York Harbor, Maine: Sam’s notebook: “This election day at the town hall, Twombley [sic Twombly] sat by the deputy sheriff & saw him buy votes at $2 each & enter the names in note-book. Said he had laid out $116 in this way—later (5 p.m.) T. saw the list of names of the bought-&-paid for—80!” [NB 45 TS 26]. Note: E.D. Twombly, editor of the short-lived (1899-1901) Old York Transcript.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote from Ponkapog, Mass. to Sam. Aldrich had read a letter of Sam’s in the newspaper about “the exclusion of ‘Huckleberry Finn,’” which also mentioned Livy’s illness. He wrote,
“She is one of the half dozen women in this world who have it in their power to grieve me.” He thought Sam’s letter was “delightful….you are always having a scrap with some idiot or other. I love you from the battles you have fought!” [MTP].