May 10 Saturday – Sam wrote from the Normandy Hotel in Paris to Frank Bliss.

I am making good progress, & hope to have the book done before the end of July. Now as to illustrations. I remember your father telling me the artist’s work & engraver’s work for Innocents Abroad cost $7,000. Of course we can knock down a deal of that expense, now, by using the new photo-processes. I’ve got an artist, here, to my mind,—young Walter F. Brown; you have seen pictures of his occasionally in St. Nicholas & Harper’s Weekly.

Sam asked for $1,100 in gold and he would have the plates made in Paris; He sent a detailed list. Walter F. Brown had engraved a few of the pictures for Edward Whymper’s book [MTLE 4: 54-6].