December 29 Saturday – At the “Country Club” (Quarry Farm) in Elmira., Sam wrote to James B. Pond. “We are on the way to New York. Any morning that you would like to talk, I am on deck at home at 10.30, but writing wastes time, for manifestly it accomplishes nothing. / Yours…” [MTP].

Irving S. Underhill wrote from Buffalo, N.Y. to Sam.

You recall the Niagara Book and my unfortunate experience with it. I bear in mind most emphatically your own dismal luck in ever having anything to do with it. Nevertheless, regardless of all the anguish it has caused, it has ‘bobbed up serenely’ again and is to be published in fine shape by Doubleday, Page & Co. In the letter of transmittal forwarded with your copy seven years ago, you stated that you kept the right to print the article in some collection…at the expiration of two years after the publication of my book. … Do you intend to print it in the near future…? [MTP]. Note: Underhill, in spite of holding a letter from Sam that he no longer owed the lacking $500 for the piece, still intended to pay it.