July 22 Saturday – After a pleasant visit with his father and siblings in Canada, William Dean Howells and family boarded the S.S. Parisian in Quebec, bound for England [Goodman and Dawson 223].

James R. Osgood wrote to advise they were sending by Am. Express a bunch of books and articles Clemens wanted [MTP].

Capt. Edmund Gray for St. Louis & Vicksburgh Line wrote that Capt. McCord, Lem S. Gray and himself each rec’d a Stolen White Elephant “and this acknowledgment though slow in coming is accounted for, by saying that we have perused the book with a great deal of pleasure.” He added a PS: “Did you receive the Photo of ‘Dad’ our Second Mate” [?] [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the bottom after the PS, “Just one month later (Aug. 23) Lem was buried. Died of wounds from explosion of the boilers. SLC."