August – Sam’s notebook entries for this month carries a list of cryptic calculations for these books to be issued by Webster & Co. With columns of sales numbers and total projected sales as below (years of publication added here):

Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock, by Almira Hancock (1887); 18,000

Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas, by Elizabeth Custer (1887); 25,000

Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey by Samuel S. Cox (1887); 20,000

A Biography of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher by William C. Beecher and Rev. Samuel Scoville (1888); 15,000

Legends and Myths of Hawaii by King David Kalakaua and Rollin M. Daggett; 20,000

Mark Twain’s Library of Humor (1888); 20,000 or 25,000

Old stock and Beecher’s aborted Life of Christ were also listed [MTNJ 3: 307].