July 29 Saturday – Abraham Reeves Jackson wrote from Chicago, transcript of July 22 Evening Post editorial enclosed. Jackson passed on a letter from J.H. Dowling who wanted Sam to lecture there [MTP].

July 29 Saturday ca. – On or shortly before this day, the Belford Brothers of Toronto published an unauthorized edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, based on the English edition, published June 9. The Belford edition was initially priced at $2.25, and later as a $1.00 hardback or a $.75 paperback. [MTPO Notes with Nov. 2, 1876 to Conway].