February 25 Saturday – Christian Tauchnitz, Jr. wrote: “Accept my best thanks for your amiable letter of the 18th of January…” He’d paid £75 on Dec. 5 to Chatto & Windus for the right to publish P&P on the continent, and asked about the binding Sam preferred [MTP]. Note in file: “SLC replies to this on 30 March 1882 (see Tauchnitz to SLC, 15 April 1882) / Postmark on back of envelope may be Feb 25”

Charles H. Clark for Hartford Courant wrote: “I shipped all those books I drew from Osgood to Howells yesterday, by express” [MTP].

Worden & Co. Wrote of 100 shares of Mo Pac bought at 96 & ¾ [MTP].