November 16 Thursday – Moncure Conway wrote from England, responding to Sam’s Nov. 2 alarm of the Belford piracy of Tom Sawyer. Conway wrote:

“I immediately held a council of war with Chatto, and…I send you the result of our cogitations….We considered it best to telegraph Belford yesterday with these words:—‘Tom Sawyer is English copyright. Chatto’” [MTPO Notes with Nov. 2, 1876 to Conway].

Reginald Cholmondeley wrote that Clemens, Lady Jones and Miss Jones “are positively engaged to home to Condover on the first Monday in August 77 at 4.30 PM” [MTP].