February 3 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote Richard Watson Gilder, editor of Century Magazine:

Say — please send me a couple of proofs of that truck pretty soon in a few days, won’t you? I’m to read it to our Young Girl’s Club here in the house and b’gosh I haven’t got any copy. I’ll see you at the Publishers and Stationers’ Dinner at the Brunswick the 10th if you’re there which I reckon you will be if you are [MTP]. Note: “that Truck” was “English as She is Taught”.

Sam began a letter to William Smith, English author of Morley: Ancient and Modern, London (1886). He finished it the next day.

Mollie Clemens wrote to Sam & Livy of receiving Sam’s letter (check enclosed) and not knowing “how to express thanks aright,” and of receiving a letter from Livy’s mother with a follow-up package by express containing “six lovely cups & saucers.” Ma Clemens was “real well” and had been to the theater twice during the last week, staying up until 1 a.m. without after effects. Mollie had tried the “mind cure” on Ma about her delusions. Mollie also mentioned Sam and Livy’s seventeenth anniversary of the day before; and of Orion’s continued recovery [MTP].

Caroline B. Le Row wrote again, Sam’s letter and a telegram from Century just received. She had “no earthly or unearthly means of knowing whether” Cassell would publish her book. “Do let me send it to your publisher, or I will send it to any publisher you suggest — some one who can comprehend the situation and “hurry up.” Sam wrote on the envelope “Send it to Funk & Wagnalls” [MTP].