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March 6 WednesdayCharlotte R. Conover (Mrs. Frank Conover) of Dayton, Ohio wrote for the Young Woman’s League asking “something from the pen of Mark Twain” for their fund-raising bazar [MTP].

Walter Hines Page wrote to Sam on letterhead from Doubleday, Page & Co., Publishers with “The World’s Work” as a motto:

Mr. Doubleday handed me the brief articles (editorials), which I have read with great pleasure; for they seem to me very well done. The World’s Work which we have put to press contained editorial articles on every one of these subjects but one; a good many of them are almost identical in thought with these paragraphs. I have been glad to read these because it may have given me an opportunity sometime to utilize the kind services of the gentleman who wrote them if, as I understand, this is what he and you would like [MTP].

At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam forwarded Page’s above letter to nephew Samuel E. Moffett with the following note: “Doubleday said he would like to have you call, at your convenience, & talk with him” [MTP].

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