June 6 Sunday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Charles Webster about book publishing matters and royalties, comparing royalties to the overall worth of books already taken for memoirs of General George McClellan and General Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888). Sam suggested offering General Adam Badeau a ten per cent royalty for his “gossipy and entertaining” book, “Grant in Peace.” Sam informed that they would sail from Buffalo for Keokuk by way of the Great Lakes, the same day that Charles and Annie Webster were to sail for Europe, on their way to an audience with Pope Leo XIII [MTLTP 198].

Sam began a letter to an unidentified person about the foul-smelling reservoir water. He finished it the next day.