May 21 Wednesday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore (only the envelope survives) [MTP].

Sam inscribed a copy of A Double-Barrelled Detective Story with his signature and the date on a blank preliminary leaf [PBA Galleries auction 24 May 2007 Lot 248].

Sam’s notebook entry lists ideas for the “50 years after” tale, never finshed [NB 45 TS 13].

G.A. Cartensen of the Rectory in Riverdale wrote to Sam. “I promised to send you the verses which I first heard when you quoted them at the end of a lecture on Artemus Ward about thirty years ago.” He had located the verses [MTP].