August 22 Monday – Sam wrote from Elmira to James R. Osgood. Sam was planning a trip to Boston.

“All right—but before you order a room for me at the Vendôme, I wish you’d ask Howells if Mrs. Howells didn’t mean to let me come to her house in case Mrs. Clemens couldn’t ”[MTP].

Hubbard & Farmer bankers & brokers wrote a notice they’d bought 100 Denver & Rio Grande at 85 for his account [MTP].

Sam wrote to Hubbard & Farmer, the letter not extant but referred to in H&F’s reply of Aug. 24.