July 15 Wednesday – From Charles E. Perkins’ cash book, Sam’s account: “By cash brot over July 15  By dft on NY  2500.00” [Berg collection, NYPL].

July 15 and 16 Thursday – Sam replied from Elmira to the May 14 of Robert Watt, journalist and author, thanking him for sending a Danish edition of a selection of Sam’s sketches and the Buck Fanshaw story in Roughing It, Ch. 47. The Danes recognized British copyright and these were printed through the authorization of Routledge in London. Sam mentioned that he had just finished “writing a five-act drama for an American comedian” (Colonel Sellers. A Drama in Five Acts). He enclosed some stereopticon photos (see Watt’s further reply Jan 4, 1875) [MTL 6: 188].