September 11 Saturday – In Elmira, Sam sent a telegraph to George Griffin, his butler in Hartford. He directed the telegram to be exchanged with his attorney Charles Perkins for twenty dollars [MTLE 5: 157]. John J. Lawler, Hartford merchant, billed Sam $2.60 for glass pane and the labor to replace [MTP].

Christian Tauchnitz wrote to Sam, with the news that TA was selling so well he was sending an additional royalty of 400 Marks. He asked that Sam send a notice that Tauchnitz was the only authorized publisher of Mark Twain’s works in Europe [MTP].