August 30 Thursday – Sam wrote to Mollie Clemens and his mother, Jane Clemens, who was visiting Orion and Mollie in Keokuk. Sam sent Livy’s advice that Mollie’s health would be a “bar” to her trying to run a boarding house. To his mother Sam wrote:

“If you don’t quit tearing around with the other young people you will make yourself sick, sure. However, we are glad you are having such a good time, & hope it will continue. Why don’t you want to go to George Hawes’s?” [MTLE 2: 147]

H.O. Houghton & Co. wrote to Clemens having rec’d his of Aug. 20. They had written Hart & Rawlinson publishers of the Canadian Monthly as requested. “Their reply, which we inclose, came to-day, and the proof of your article in the Oct Atlantic has been sent to them” [MTP].