April 20 Wednesday – In Boston, William Dean Howells wrote to Sam:

Can you tell me whether the Mutual Publishing Co. of Hartford still exists? Do you happen to remember any good account of the earth-quake and tidal wave in South America in 1868? Also any story of a good Blizzard and good Cyclone? [MTHL 2: 590]. Note: Howells was collaborating with Thomas S. Perry on the Library of Universal Adventure by Sea and Land, published by Harpers in 1888. See footnote 1 in the MTHL source cited above.