August 5 Saturday – In Krankenheil-Tölz, Germany, Sam wrote a short note to Chatto & Windus, his English publisher, asking that a copy of P&P be sent to Kurhotel in Krankenheil-Tölz, and reminding them of a request for a six-month subscription to the London Daily News, which had not arrived as yet [MTP].

Athenaeum magazine No. 3432 p.191 briefly reviewed The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories, faintly praising the title story and “Playing Courier”; “Petition to the Queen of England” is in the fading tradition of Artemus Ward” [Tenney 21].