July 20 Tuesday – Sam paid a bill to Estes & Lauriat of Boston for 21 books in all, including $3.85 for a three-volume set of Plutarch’s Lives, Marie Sevigne’s Letters of (1878) [Gribben 550, 621-2] three volumes of “Popular Fiction,” two volumes of Adolphe Taine’s History of English Literature (1871); Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen and Epithalamion; Amicis’ Studies of Paris; The Fables of Aesop; Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which Sam had read as a boy and again in 1869; an eleven-volume set of Thackeray’s Lectures (1868); James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson [554, 684, 679, 697, 78].

Sam paid Frank M. Wilson & Co., Bridgeport, Conn. tailors and Gents Furnishers $15.00 each for two white linen suits, billed on July 15 [MTP]. Note: Clemens wore white in season long before he adopted it for winter wear in 1906.