August 22 Thursday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam finished his Aug. 17 to 21 to Dorothy Quick. “Thursday, 22. I’m collecting red cigar-belts for you against your coming—but I love you notwithstanding”  [MTAq 54].

Sam also wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson in Staten Island, N.Y.: “I am very glad, my dear Miss T. to learn that the option has been paid at last; & since you as desire, you can send your check for the small advance I made you, but do not do it if it can inconvenience you, for there is no hurry” [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: The Doubledays arrived. The Doubledays! we had such a rich evening full of talk that I couldn’t ever begin to put it all down. First we had tea out on the porch and the postal check was talked over. The King would be willing to go to Washington to poll the house and he “would even squeeze a compliment for the President out of his system, if he had one in it—if an hour with him would do any good.” He said he knew that a 30 minute talk with the President—with any of the House of Representatives—would do more good than bushels of pamphlets would, and so it’s now arranged that the King is to go to the Doubleday Farm at Mill Neck which is only 20 minutes of mobiling from Oyster bay and the President—if Mr. Doubleday can get a mortgage on an hour with the President. The King, when he dropped off onto Copyright—told of his talk with Lord Thuring [sic Thring] in London. Lord T. had said that there was no such thing—or there was a law against property in an idea and that a book was an idea. The King wanted perpetual copyright and when Lord T. said “Impossible, impossible!” The King pointed out that a book was acknowledged as property because it was given a 14 year copyright. Then it was acknowledged a 2nd time, when 14 more years were added to it, and that “everything of value has an idea.” Lord Thuring mentioned real estate and the King told him that [“] real estate had no value except as the idea of man made it valuable. Everything is the result of an idea—a flatiron—a washboard—a piece of furniture—a railroad, all are ideas” [MTP 89]. Note: Henry Thring (1818-1907) served in the House of Lords until 1905.

B.C. Forder wrote from Blanford, England to relate a short anecdote about a Christian Science woman having her purse stolen and the robber returning it [MTP].