September 28 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Monday, Sept. 28/03. Talk with Duneka (Harper & Brothers.) If ever a publisher gets a non-terminable contract with an author, that author can never buy his freedom from that slavery on any terms. A publisher is by nature so low & vile that he—that he—well from the bottom of my heart I wish all publishers were in hell. / And particularly: / Elisha Bliss (already there);” [NB 46 TS 23-24].
Note: this entry was made under the printed heading for Sept. 12. Under the proper Sept. 28 printed heading he entered: “No more decision than a dictionary. / As undecided as a Dicy [TS 25].