August 27 Thursday –Sam wrote from Mt. Onteora, New York to Miss Nettie (last name not given).

“Dear Miss Nettie— /Anybody can tell the bare truth: let us study to adorn it./ Truly Yours / Mark Twain” [MTP].

Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote that neither Howe the photographer nor Gerhardt has the right to publish the photo of Grant; but the Century co. was ‘out of the way” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Settlement of the Grant photograph perplexity”