July 31 Friday – J.P. Haynes, “tea and grocery house” Hartford, billed $6.50 for “1 bbl of flour” [MTP].

Annie Moffett Webster wrote: “Your very kind letter enclosing $250.00 received. I thank you and Aunt Livy very much. I am very much pleased that you feel as you do about Charlie; and I hope he will always be as successful as he has been…” [MTP].

Alexander & Green wrote returning a MS. Also, “You will get the burro in due course” [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote twice, thanking for the present of $250 to Annie and compliments of his work. He would sail in the morning. The second letter was details of the Grant book [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “London address / Brown, Shipley & Co.”; Webster was going to Europe to contract publishing of Grant’s Memoirs there.