August 2 Thursday – Frederick W. Wile wrote from the Berlin Bureau of the Chicago Daily News:

I wonder if you remember an American newspaper-man to whom you gave a forenoon’s great pleasure in London in the summer of 1900? He had asked you for an interview at Brown’s Hotel and you set the appointment for Kellgren’s massage-establishment, down Victoria-way, where I saw some husky rubbers doing sundry and divers things to you. Then we spent two hours walking and talking through Hyde Park. I am the proud possessor of these recollections, and I am writing to ask if you would not give me a permanent souvenir of them in the shape of an autographed photograph of yourself? [MTP].

The ledger books of Chatto & Windus show that 2,000 additional copies of Mark Twain’s Library of Humor were printed, totaling 16,000 [Welland 236].