July 8 Wednesday – Sam’s guestbook    has the following entries (also noted in IVL TS 54):

Name Address Date Remarks

Frederick Leigh New York City July 8-9 Staff of Harper & Bros.

F.A. Duneka  “        “        “   “  “8-9

Note: Major Frederick Leigh was Treasurer of Harper’s.

William Dean Howells, in Kittery Point, Maine, wrote to Sam.

I am sending a huge mass of your letters to you for Paine, because I am vague as to their going direct to him, after your doubts of last winter. I have written him saying merely that I think it best all round that you should see them first. You will note that for some reason I had got them ready to send you two years ago at Dublin.

      That was beautiful of you to write John of your pleasure in his house. I believe I would rather have such a letter than the most perfect villa.

      I have been thinking how Aldrich would have enjoyed that thing the other day, and what fun he would have got out of us poor dodderers. How old is Col. Higginson anyway? A thousand? He made you look young and made me feel so. / Yours ever … [MTHL 2: 830]. Note: Thomas Wentworth Higginson was 85.

Sam’s A.D. for this date continued to focus with “spectacular venon” (Hill 209) against Lillian Aldrich for the June 30 Memorial of her late husband, which Sam attended.