November 25 Monday – Hunting & Howard wrote a short note to Sam:

Your favor received. We have the diamond stud referred to and will keep it in the safe subject to further orders from you. Very Truly Yours / Hunting & Howard [MTP]. Note: In the MTP file, a slip reads: “The ‘Howard’ of Hunting & Howard is Edward Tasker Howard, Clemens’s Sandwich Islands companion. See Roughing It notes by him or ET&S 3 notes by Bucci”

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam, clippings enclosed. “I think it would be a good idea to give the book out pretty freely to the press.” Hall acknowledged that any newspapers accepting copies would have to agree not to publish reviews prior to Dec. 8 (English pub date) so as not to damage English copyright, where the work had to appear first [MTLTP 258n3].