December 30 Thursday – In Hartford Sam answered Webster’s of Dec. 29, approving the suggestion that they raise their offer for the recently deceased General Logan’s book to half the profits, which is as high as they went for any book save Grant’s Memoirs. Sam also felt that if Elizabeth Bacon Custer’s book, Boots and Saddles; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer (1885), which had sold poorly in the trade, be put together in one volume with her late husband’s book, that they might offer her 25 cents per copy [MTP].