June 17 Friday – James W. See of Hamilton, Ohio wrote to Sam desiring to represent and/or manufacture the Mark Twain Scrapbooks in the West [MTP]. A soldier’s monument was dedicated in New Haven — Sam may have been invited and attended, since he had been elected a life member of the Putnam Phalanx, a social and ceremonial military organization [MTNJ 3: 294n230]. Note: Sam wrote on the envelope, “Brer. W. please tell him that if he can arrange with Slote & Co, very good; but I am bound by my contract with them. There is no Western manufacturer. SLC”

Thomas O’Hagan wrote from Paisley, Ontario sending Sam a “little volume of poems, entitled, ‘A Gate of Flowers” [MTP]. Note: Thomas O’Hagan’s A Gate of Flowers and Other Poems (1887).