September 4 Tuesday – James B. Pond wrote to Sam.

I am glad to get your letter on the margin of the proposed little story for my book. I don’t agree with you. I believe that a man who can write a letter that makes one feel as though his friends should enjoy the same feeling, has no right to insist that everybody should wait for him to die,—a man who has a lease of life for one hundred years, as you have. You have got the thing down so fine that you can live without eating, and a man who does not require nourishment is an “evergreen”.

September 2 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Short Story: American Children playing at royalty” [NB 43 TS 25].

At Dollis Hill House in London, England Sam inscribed a copy of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches to Andrew Chatto: “To Mr. Chatto / with the kindest regards of / The Author / London, Sept. 2, 1900” [MTP].

September 1 Saturday – At Dollis Hill House in London, England Sam wrote to Colonel Green (not further identified).

August 31 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Send book to Mrs. Lart, Wellington Ct.” [NB 43 TS 25].

August 30 Thursday – T. Douglas Murray wrote to Sam, that he “admired immensely” the Introduction Sam had written for the Joan of Arc reference book he was editing [MTP].

August 29 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “There are bigots who can accept nothing which their party-opposites approve. If you could work the mulitiplication table into a democratic platform the republicans wd vote it down at the election” [NB 43 TS 25].

August 27 Monday – At Dollis Hill House in London, England Sam wrote two letters to T. Douglas Murray, the first bears Sam’s note at the top: “Never sent; I hadn’t the heart. He never meant any harm; he was only ignorant & stupid. /

S.L.C., Sept. 7.” The unsent letter:

August 26 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Human Peculiarities as Exhibited in History” [NB 43 TS 25].

Williston Fish wrote to Sam.

August 25 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Murrays come to luncheon—arrive about 1” [NB 43 TS 25]. Note: T. Douglas Murray. See Aug. 27 unsent letter to Murray.

Harper’s Weekly ran E.E. Beach’s review of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg on p. 806. Tenney: “A general and largely uncritical description of several stories in the new book” [32].

August 24 Friday – At Dollis Hill House in London, Sam inscribed a copy of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches to Ethel Bell (Mrs. C. Moberly Bell): “To Mrs. C. Moberly Bell with the compliments of the Author / London, Aug. 24/00” [MTP: The Jenkins Co. catalog, No. 139, Item 195].