June 9 Tuesday – Malcolm D. Graham wrote from Hamilton, Bermuda to Sam. “I am indeed glad to have traded the owner of the shell, and am returning it to you by the mail under registered cover & trust it will duly reach you.” He also discussed Bermuda’s weather [MTP]. Note: the “identification” shell was from Helen Blackmer; See May 25 to Graham.

Ebenezer J. Hill, Congressman, wrote on Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representative letterhead to Sam. “I am in receipt of your letter of the 7th, and think you are mistaken in regard to a rural free delivery service starting from Redding. I am under the impression that the rural free delivery service to which you refer starts from Bethel… / I will at once forward your letter to the Post Office Department and ask them to send an inspector there and see if the route cannot be extended so as to take you in” [MTP].