August 30 Monday – In Weggis, Switzerland Sam wrote to the Editors of the Century , enclosing a tribute to his long-time neighbor, the incomparable scholar James Hammond Trumbull, who died on Aug. 5. Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, and Clarence C. Buel were running the Century Co. at this time and published Sam’s piece, “James Hammond Trumbull, The Tribute of a Neighbor” in the Nov. 1897 issue (it also ran in the Hartford Courant on Nov. 1, p.3) Sam’s note that accompanied the tribute:

Dear Boys—

You might find place for this—I should say among the small-type correspondence over in the back of the magazine. But if you are “full up,” as the ‘bus drivers say, please return it to [MTP].