February 2 Wednesday – In Hartford Sam wrote a one-liner to Bruce Weston Munro in Toronto that he had not received an item Munro had sent, probably the novel Munro had written of sending [MTP]. See Oct. 21, 1881 entry for more on Munro [MTP].

Caroline B. Le Row wrote asking Sam to interpret an enclosed Feb. 1 letter to her from O.M. Dunham, manager of Cassell & Co., N.Y. publisher. Cassell had returned her MS “about the first week in Jany” and now was asking her to resubmit it. Le Row noted, “Inscrutable are the ways of ye Publisher….Today comes this reply which I send to someone brighter than myself for interpretation” [MTP].