August 2 Thursday –Sam returned to the Hartford house, probably to wrap up issues connected with security and to check with the police.

In Conanicut, R.I., Howells wrote that the last installment of “Some Rambling Notes” was “first-rate.”  Howells had received Sam’s invitation to Ah Sin, but did not go.

“…if it had been The Amateur Detective,  I think you would have had me on your hands. I’m very curious to read that play. Haven’t you a duplicate that you could send me? Why don’t you run up from New York, and see a fellow? There are six ferryboats a day from Newport to Jamestown, on Conanicut” [MTHL 1: 191].

Sam wrote from Hartford to George M. Fenn (1831-1909), London writer and editor, declining to send a miscellaneous article, using the excuse that he was “under contract for all such things that I do write.” Sam asked to be remembered to:

“…friends in the Savage & Whitefriars—especially Henry Lee, if he will only be good & not so lazy & tell me what amount of money it was I once borrowed of him in Paris & told Dolby to repay him & Dolby writes that he forgot it…I never will borrow money from such a lazy man again!” [MTLE 2: 115].

August 2? Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford and complied with the request of Paul Apfelstedt for an autograph with “great pleasure” [MTLE 2: 116].