May 7 Tuesday – In Paris Sam wrote to Andrew Chatto.

I am very glad you have arranged for Joan, and that I am to remain with you and not go wandering among strangers.

He asked if the check could be sent to Livy in Elmira at the end of June. After his signature he added that JA was to have been issued the next January, but since then the plan was to serialize both Book II and a little of Book III, and he thought it would finish in Harper’s Monthly in the April 1896 issue.