July – At Quarry Farm Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore, Sam forwarded John Horne’s June 29 letter and asked Whitmore to write Horne after July 14th and tell him that Sam had left for Australia. Sam also asked Whitmore to call on John Day if the rent wasn’t paid on the Farmington Ave. house by the 13th. [MTP]. Note: given Horne wrote on June 29 and the Atlantic crossing took about a week, with at least one additional day for the mail to get from NYC to Elmira, Sam’s reply here could not have been sent before July 8 or after July 14.

"Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” first appeared in the North American Review for July 1895. It was later collected in How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays (1897) [Budd, Collected 2: 1002]. 

The London Quarterly Review p.388 gave a brief and descriptive review of P&P: “The adventures of the two boys in their new worlds keep one amused and interested throughout” [Tenney 23].