November 15 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal noted she was still ill [MTP TS 146].

J.G. Babb Secretary for University of Missouri wrote to Sam requesting his portrait, though it must be “approved by a committee competent to pass on its artistic merit” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “No answer – the terms of the letter being uncourteous to the verge of brutality.”

John A. Lockwood wrote from Syracuse, NY to Sam complaining about asking for TA at the Carnegie Library in Syracuse, but being told he already had one fiction book to check out and they wouldn’t allow two; he argued it was a travel book, not a fiction book, but she was insistent. “I hope you will tell Mr Carnegie that if he allows your works on travel to be called fiction you will take them out of his libraries altogether” [MTP].