September 19 Thursday – In Cambridge, Mass., William Dean Howells wrote to Sam about CY.

I’m just home from Ohio. Last night I started on your book, and it sank naturally into my dreams. It’s charming, original, wonderful — good in fancy, and sound to the core in morals. So far I find nothing but a word or two even to question. — I can’t reach it in the Study before the January number. When do you publish? [MTHL 2: 612]. Note: Sam would publish in the U.S. on Dec. 10; Howells’ review appeared in the Jan. 1890 issue of Harper’s. 

William J. Hamersley wrote to Sam (mostly illegible) and enclosed a deed for a $500 royalty [MTP].