August 7 Wednesday – In Elmira Sam wrote to the editors of the Century:

I’ve done as you required — done my very levelest best to get it to you in time for the November number — & I reckon I’ve succeeded. — Hope so, anyway. I mail it to-night.

Sam also wrote that he would have Fred Hall hurry Dan Beard with the illustrations [MTP].

Adrien C. d’Henzel wrote from St. Paul, Minn.; this is a “begging letter”; Sam wrote on the env. “An incorrigible humbug” [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote a short letter to Sam:

…favor received. We note what you say about sending sheets to Mr. Howells. We will send you proofs of the pictures as fast as they are gotten ready. / the …[LAL] is indeed a grand work. We are pleased to say that the expense of getting it out is now nearly at an end [MTP].