October 5 Monday – In his Oct. 6 to Margaret Blackmer, Sam related activities of this day. See entry.

Edith Virginia Gazella wrote from Rutherford, NJ to Sam. She’d sent him a copy of La Vita Nova, her new magazine and asked if he might look it over and offer how she might improve it. She’d ridden on the streetcar with him a few times but never had the nerve to speak to him. As a girl she would hide in the attic and read HF and TS and wanted so badly to be a boy [MTP].

George Hahlweg wrote from Brooklyn, NY to ask Sam where in his books she might find a certan quote, “Where is California? / Oh California / Why is it on the earth?  On the earth!” [MTP]. Note: IVL:  “C.S.Visit to Heaven”

Katherine Koch for Denver Public Schools, noting Clemens’ publicized struggles with the German language, wrote to ask if he would “make a brief suggestion” for her article (to be published in Education) about how German might be more easily taught or learned [MTP].