July 20 Monday – The Library of Congress granted Sam copyright No. 9490E for Dramatic Compositions, which was The Gilded Age as a stage play [MTL 6: 190n4].
Charles P. Pope wrote to Sam that he’d met Howells and came to terms with him; that he liked him [MTL 6: 195n5].
John Lester Wallack (in the theatrical world known only as Lester Wallack) wrote to answer Sam’s question about John L. Toole. He sailed from Liverpool on July 16 [MTP].
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