October 5 Saturday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Mr. Osborne (not further identified): “Indeed I should very much like to see that institution, but I have settled down, now, to stir from under the rooftree no more forever—at least for a year or two, I hope. / Won’t you send me another copy of the pamphlet? I hadn’t read three pages of it before some one carried it off. I was thoroughly interested” [MTP].

Booklovers Library, Yonkers, NY, per R.B.H. wrote to Sam of their weekly delivery schedule to Riverdale, and asked if he wished to change his service from five books at a time to three [MTP].

Thomas B. Reed, lawyer with Reed, Simpson, Thacher & Barnum, wrote to Sam, explaining R.G. Newbegin’s story of selling “500 copies [of the Popular edition of “Mark Twain”] to another agent, W.I. Squire, of Toledo,” admitting “freely that such circulars were entirely unauthorized by you….” Reed then pointed out the danger that Newbegin and Squire were in, violating New York statutes. Reed thought nothing more might be said, unless Sam wanted to do “something …with regards to Squires” [MTP].