November 3 Sunday – William Dean Howells spent the day as Sam’s guest. He likely read the first part of his short experimental novel soon to be published in Harper’s, The Shadow of a Dream (Mar.-May 1890) [MTHL 2: 618n1].

Howard P. Taylor wrote to Sam that he’d called several times at Webster & Co. but failed to catch him in.

Would like to have a good old sage-brush talk with you sometime. When will you be in N.Y, and where can I see you when you are here? I see you are still tackling “platitudes”. Remember those you used to grind out for the Enterprise? How that name takes me back to the ‘good old times’, when we used to drum on two consumptive guitars, after the paper was out, in the editorial room. Remember? [MTP].