October 27 Sunday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Frank Bliss, upset at the advertising conflicts between Harpers, the American Publishing Co., and the R.G. Newbegin Co.

Come! With the Harpers to convince the public that 16 of my books are no good, & you to convince the public that the other six are no good, my reputation is in a fair way to land in Sheol in six months! But you must expect me to join the conspiracy. In fact I shall oppose it. If you publish a scheme of comparative sales I will attack it in print as a deliberate attempt to make money by injuring me in the public esteem & of course I will sue him.

After “sue him,” Sam drew an arrow to R.G. Newbegin in the next paragraph, whom he blamed for the comparative sales idea [MTP].