August 11 Thursday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Benjamin H. Ticknor, enclosing a check for $850.26 for publishing costs, probably for P&P and its circular. Ticknor had requested sales points for a circular and Sam replied that he wasn’t the best man to give them, that he should “leave it alone ten days & then get the points from Osgood & Anthony, & a suggestion or two from Howells…” [MTP]. (See Aug.14.)

Lara M. Gallandet wrote a short note to Clemens: “Your loving friend / Lara M. Gallandet / Indiana / Mich”. In the four corners in tiny hand: “Its going to rain!”; “codfish”; “Eyebrows”; “Short-stories” [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote of several business matters, including an offer from “the French gentleman.” Webster thought a tight contract might be drawn with him (not further identified) [MTP].