August – John J. Astorhouse for Phoenix National Bank sent Sam a draft for “nineteen cents & one mill.” No letter or explanation is in the file [MTP].

August early, before 7th – In Elmira Sam wrote to Brown & Gross, Hartford booksellers, inserting a prospectus for James Elliot Cabot’s A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1887), asking them to get him the book [MTP]. Note: On Aug. 7 Livy wrote to Grace King that she was reading this work, so that Sam’s undated note to Brown & Gross had to be prior by at least a few days [Gribben 124].