August 22 Saturday – Karl Gerhardt wrote “another chapter in the Nathan Hale farce” [MTP]. Note: Gerhardt was bidding on doing a statue of Nathan Hale, now at the Conn. capitol in Hartford.

William N. Woodruff wrote [MTP]. Only the env. survives; Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Containing Judge [George] Turner’s suicide”

Charles Webster wrote from London that he’d made “a splendid contract” in London but “the prospects are poor for the Continent.” Webster had chosen Henry Stanley’s publisher Sampson, Low Marston & Co. Stanley had helped him greatly [MTP].

Robert U. Johnson for Century Magazine wrote “All right about the photograph. Mr. Whitford told us the [illegible word] of the situation.” He was anxious to see the “Missouri sketch” about Sam’s time in the Marion Rangers [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “They give up the Grant photograph”