July 28 Friday – Joel Chandler Harris wrote [MTP].

Estes & Lauriat (Boston booksellers) billed Sam for “1 Strickland’s Queens 26 vols 110.00” Marked paid on Aug. 4 [MTP].

William M. Laffan for Harper & Bros. wrote: “Thanks! I will send you a proof anyhow! My glass was not full, but I hastened away and put you in debt to me to the extent of 15c.” He wrote of hot weather in the high 90s [MTP].

Christian Tauchnitz wrote from Leipzig that he’d rec’d Sam’s of July 5 and was sending 500 Marks for the publication of The Stolen White Elephant in their Continental Edition [MTP].