August 31 Friday – Orion Clemens wrote to Sam, “Your very kind leter of the 27th received. We will postpone building in accordance with your suggestion.” Since the typesetter must be causing great anxiety, Orion volunteered “a week or two of investigation.” Ma had rallied and actually walked five blocks yesterday evening; she was “losing” things in her room and asked for locks to bar thieves [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote to Sam (clipping enclosed). “First, the general outlook of the business continues well and grows more favorable every day; Cox, Custer and your book continue to pick up,” though the LAL was “going slowly now,” due to the canvassers taking up the Sheridan book. Hall enclosed clippings from the N.Y. World and the N.Y. Commercial Advertiser announcing Sheridan’s memoirs [MTP].

Arthur H. Wright for Webster & Co. sent Sam bank balance report totaling: $1,793.84 [MTP].

August late or September early – Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg wrote to Sam asking for a letter of introduction to the Century magazine, so she might give a personal interview on her work before leaving the country [Moyne 373]. See Sept. 15 entry for Sam’s reply.