October 29 Thursday – In London Sam wrote to Chatto & Windus.
1. Please send me two proofs of Max O’Rell [Bourget] article. I wish to send one to Harper.
2. When am I to send next cheque for rent? To whose order shall it be drawn? And won’t it be best for me to send it through you? Also, what is the amount?
October 27 Tuesday – In London Sam sent a postcard to Chatto & Windus asking if they’d received the printed “Californian’s Tale” and the amended Bourget article which he’d mailed [MTP].
Sam also wrote to J. Henry Harper asking him to give only “Care Chatto & Windus” as his address.
We wish to remain strictly in hiding. To make sure of the Monthly, the Weekly & the Bazar, I would like to have them sent to this private address, if you will.
October 25 Sunday – In London, Livy wrote to Mary Mapes Dodge.
How well I remember the evening at Puddinhead Wilson your coming into our box. You sat there some time chatting with us before you recognized Susy. Then you leaned forward and said, “Why Susy is this you??” She gave a little pleased self-conscious laugh, and my mother’s heart was proudly touched because the tone of affection with which you said “Susy” [MTP].
October 21 Wednesday – In London Sam wrote to Frank Bliss:
As I understand the idiotic law, the renewal of a copyright is not possible until the original one lacks 6 months of running out.
October 4-18 Sunday – In London Sam wrote to his English publisher, Andrew Chatto:
To-morrow or next day Mr. William Wilson an old Scotch friend & present neighbor of mine will call upon you business-wise, with a manuscript book. I promised him that you would read it; and told him that if you liked it & wanted it he would find that you & Mr. Spalding are fair dealers.
October 1 Thursday ca. – On or about this day a portion of a letter Sam sent to Orion appeared in the Keokuk Gate City; it survives in scrapbook 20 at the MTP:
October – Sometime during the month Sam wrote to Poultney Bigelow, confiding the secret address of 23 Tedworth Square for him to visit. Sam headed the note, “Private,” and explained:
September 27 Sunday – In London Sam wrote to Wayne MacVeagh.
September 24 Thursday – In London Sam wrote to William Dean Howells, responding to his Sept. 13 letter of condolence.
September 23 Wednesday – In London Sam wrote a PS note to Franklin G. Whitmore reminding him to keep the Farmington Ave. house insured.