September 12 Tuesday – Paid, a Sept. 1 bill for a hack used Apr. 26 from E.C. Wheaton, livery, $3 [MTP].

September 12 or 13 Wednesday – Sam made a quick trip to New York City, where he saw Bret Harte who handed him a letter from Christian Bernard Tauchnitz about including one of Sam’s book in Tauchnitz’s series. (See Sept.14 letter) [MTLE 1: 114]. Notes: Tauchnitz was a Leipzig printer from an old German family of publishers. He founded the Library of British and American Authors, a reprint series familiar to anglophone travelers on the continent of Europe. This series consisted of inexpensive, paperbound editions, anticipating modern mass-market paperbacks. Started in 1841, the series eventually ran to over 5,000 volumes.