May 8 Wednesday – In Hartford, Sam wrote a two-sentence note to the editor of The Critic:

One dramatic version of the Prince & Pauper will be put upon the state in the autumn, but not two [MTP].

Note: The editor at this time was Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder, siblings of the Century’s Richard Watson Gilder.

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that he’d read a typed copy of CY. Hall expressed being “nervous” about his “ability to properly place” CY “on the market and give it the circulation it deserves.” Hall had not handled publication of one of Sam’s books before this [MTNJ 3: 478; MTLTP 253n1].