September 11 Sunday – In Belmont, Mass., Howells wrote to Sam:

“That is a famous idea about the Hamlet, and I should like ever so much to see your play when it’s done. Of course, you’ll put it on the stage, and I prophesy a great triumph for it.”

Howells also wrote about Sam’s “very generous willingness” to pay in advance for his “Library of Humor” work. Daughter Winny was still “trying the rest cure” [MTHL 1: 373].

Edward R. Faxon wrote a short note from Hartford. “Yours of the 31st Aug received. I know Mr. Gerhardt’s French address perfectly well without the information from you” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From the damfool is Secy of Gerhardt’s K. of H.”; Note in file: “Edward R. Faxon was an officer of the Pioneer Lodge, No. 315, Knights of Honor, Hartford”; “See SLC to the Gerhardts, 31 Aug 1881”