January 5 Saturday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote a postcard to Augustus T. Gurlitz. “Yes, I can testify for Kipling after Jan. 18. I leave on the 14th for Boston to visit Thos Bailey Aldrich…& return Jan. 17” [MTP]. Note: at this point Sam’s trip to Washington D.C. on Jan. 19 had not been foreseen.

Frank E. Bliss wrote to Sam asking if it was all right to give Doubleday some copy from “Adam’s Diary” as they were “going to publish it in some sort of a book.” He had conferred with H.H. Rogers about “the proposed scheme for selling all those books,” but Rogers didn’t think it was fair to Sam. After the typed note, Bliss added in hand at the bottom: “How soon must you have that money? We have quite a bunch coming in on Jan 16th I expect & I’d like to have you wait till then if you can” [MTP]. Note: Bliss owed royalties to Sam; the publishing business often found itself in cash-flow squeezes & did not always pay on time.