December 1 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Chatto & Windus, thanking them for checks amounting to $6,000 for sales of A Tramp Abroad. Sam wrote that he was surprised by the “largeness of sale in the United States,” which he said brought the total to $50,000 he would get out of the book for twelve-months sales, from Mar. 1, 1880 [MTLE 5: 218].

Bills/receipts/statements from Hartford merchants:

Woolley’s Livery Stable bill of Jan. 1, 1881 Shows use of a hack this day “to & from Party” $2.50 [MTP]. Fox & Co., grocers $41.58 “Amount of bill to date, pass book”; J.P. Newton, “meat, poultry, game, fish & vegetables” $5.08 for: Nov. 3, 5, 12, 15, 17, 19, 26 fish, mostly bass & salmon; Wm. Roberts, “harness, saddles,” etc. $14.50 for Nov. 10 purchase “1 pr. Blankets, 1 pr. sliding rein holders”; paid Dec.10 [MTP].

Mary L. Bartlett billed/paid $19 for “20 lessons in piano, daughter; 1 Leibert & Stark’s Piano School Book I”[MTP].

Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. billed $7.14 for Nov. telegrams: Nov. 2 to Boston; Nov. 9 to N.Y. (Conway); Nov. 13 to Elmira; Nov. 15 to Philadelphia.