September 26 Monday – Frederick J. Hall for Webster & Co. Wrote to Sam, forwarding information on three books they’d been approached about publishing: a revision of the Bible from Dr. Philip Schaff, head of the Board of the American Revision of the Bible; William Desmond O’Brien with an encyclopedia of Ireland; and Dr. Chalfant of San Francisco, who had stopped in to show a manuscript of a history of convict life [MTP]. Hall also wrote that the firm rejected the bible revision, and the Ireland book; and also a biography of Dio Lewis by Mrs. Lewis [MTLTP 236n1].

Sam’s notebook carries an entry for a bank balance this day of $18,900 [MTNJ 3: 331].