September 5 Tuesday – The Clemens family left Quarry Farm for Hartford by way of New York City [The Twainian, Nov-Dec. 1956 p.3, June 2, 1911 letter from Susan Crane to Paine].

In New York, Bret Harte wrote to Sam, enclosing the Aug. 21 note from Baron Christian B. Tauchnitz offering to take Sam’s work into his European series, beginning with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

[Harte:] I have received the enclosed note to-day. / The Baron is a good fellow. Considering the fact that we have no copyright on the Continent, and that he could steal but wont, and that his editions are the perfection of letter press, and that to be on his list is a kind of guarantee to the English reading people there I’d advise you to accept his offer. He will send you from £50 to £100 according to the size of the book—as a gratuity. Of course his books are contraband in England, it doesn’t interfere with your rights there [Duckett 99].

Harte asked again about Bliss, who had promised to bring out Gabriel Conroy by Sept. 1, yet Harte had heard nothing. “You are a stockholder in the Concern. Shore him up,” Harte wrote.