July 9 Tuesday – Joseph L. Blamire agent for Routledge & Sons wrote to Sam:

Your favor of 6th is duly at hand. In reply I have to say that I received all right the copy of “Innocents Abroad” and sent it promptly to London; (I have no doubt but a part of it will be already in type by the time you receive this letter, as the steamer by which I sent it arrived at Queenstown on the evening of the 7th inst.) and I now have the pleasure of enclosing you our cheque for Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment, which I think you will find correct [MTPO]. Note: see Welland, p. 33.

July 9–12 Friday – Sam wrote from New Saybrook to Francis E. Bliss. Sam had received a letter from his sister Pamela Moffett and an order for his eleven-year-old nephew Sammy, who had been selling subscriptions to Roughing It. He passed on the note to Bliss [MTL 5: 114-5].