September 4 Sunday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Elisha Bliss.
“During the past week have written first four chapters…[of Roughing It]. We shall sell 90,000 copies the first 12 months” [MTL 4: 190]. Note: Sam liked it. It did sell well, some 75,000 copies the first year.
September 2 Friday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Orion. Sam was so grateful for Orion’s memorandum books on their trip to Nevada, that he promised him $1,000 from royalties [MTL 4: 186].
September – In the Galaxy for this month—MARK TWAIN’S MEMORANDA – Included:
“Political Economy”
“John Chinaman in New York”
“The Noble Red Man”
“A Royal Compliment”
“The Approaching Epidemic”
“Favors from Correspondents”
Short miscellaneous – included items on Beef Contract, Funeral, Obituary, Enigma [Schmidt].
August 31 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to his sister Pamela A. Moffett:
“We’re getting along tolerably well. Mother is here, & Miss Emma Nye. Livy cannot sleep, since her father’s death—but I give her a narcotic every night & make her.”
August 30 Tuesday – How do rumors get started? Here’s one from the Brooklyn Eagle p.4 of this date:
“Dr. Clemens, a brother of ‘Mark Twain,’ is a practicing physician in Louisville.”
Thomas Swift, M.D. wrote from Hartford to Clemens.
“HOGWASH”
In a late number of the Galaxy you give an interesting specimen of this class of literature with an expressed desire for Some more.
August 25 Thursday – Sam’s article “Domestic Missionaries Wanted” first ran in the Buffalo Express [Budd, “Collected” 1011].
August 23 Tuesday – “Colonel” Alexander Curran Walker (1816-1883) wrote from McBean, Ga.
August 22 Monday – O.B. Jabbers wrote on Northern Tier Gazette letterhead, Troy, Pa. “Enclosed find an atrocity recently printed at this office to be distributed to the children and parents of the aforesaid school [no school mentioned].The undersigned line touched my feelings as a red hot poker would a sleeping cat” [MTP]. No article in file.
August 21 Sunday – In the evening, Thomas K. Beecher gave a memorial tribute to Jervis Langdon in Elmira’s Opera House [MTL 4: 182n1]. Sam & Livy probably stayed in Elmira until the day after the memorial, and then returned to Buffalo [MTL 4: 185].
August 17 or 24 Wednesday –Sam wrote from Elmira or Buffalo to his sister Pamela Moffett.