July 10 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Dr. Haig, 7 Brook st (just around the corner.) / A.D. Provand, M.P. 2 Whitehall Court SW / The pocket-mine (or Frenchman’s Tunnel) in 1855. The 3 meet there again, aged 75) & strike it rich. But the girl, oh where is she? Chapparal quail” [NB 43 TS 21].

Will M. Clemens replied to Sam’s objections in his June 6 reply.

…in no instance have I or would I copy a single line of your copyrighted work. But your public spoken utterances become public property once they are spoken and there is no law against writing truthful facts concerning a man’s life. The book is shelved for the moment much to my regret and loss—I can wait—I’ve waited now forty years for other things—and I can add you to the collection now in storage. It was not my doing in the first instance. I was asked to write a book and I wrote it. One thing remember—I possess more material concerning your life and work than any other man living, dead or still unborn—and the material is far too valuable to the world to throw away. I can then only wait for a change in the weather [MTHHR 447n2]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “A Threat”