September 10 Sunday – The Clemenses were still in New York. Sam’s notes in Hyppolyte Taine’s The Ancient Regime (1876) state that he finished reading the book on this day, a second reading during the year [Slotta 32]. This was a major sourcebook for both P&P and CY (See also Jan. 29 entry).

NYC temperatures ranged from 66-77 degrees F. with no rain [NOAA.gov].

In Cambridge, Mass., Howells wrote to Sam, forwarding a story that his sister, Anne Thomas Howells, had sent. “See if you can make something of it,” he wrote. Howells agreed that they “must try the Blindfold Novelettes for next year,” that is, stories made from segments done by various authors [MTHL 1: 149].