August 22 Friday – In New York, Sam and Livy parted ways, Sam to Washington, D.C., and Livy back to the children at Onteora Park near Tannersville, N.Y. Livy would write to her mother on Aug. 24 from there. Sam checked into the Arlington House [Aug. 26 to Whitmore].

John Henton Carter (Commodore Rollingpin) wrote on the letterhead of August Gast Bank Note Co., St. Louis to Sam: “I send you by this mail a copy of a work I have just issued intitled, ‘Thomas Rutherton’ / I know that it is a good book because I wrote it myself.” He wanted Sam’s opinion [MTP]. See Apr. 29, 1891 when Carter wrote again. Thomas Rutherton (1890).

Mrs. A.S. Parker wrote from Eagleville, Conn. to invite Sam to an Aug. 28th six-granges picnic. Sam wrote “Declined” on the envelope [MTP].