April 20 Sunday – Sam wrote a long “screed” from Hartford to Whitelaw Reid. Sam was upset by the short review in small type that appeared in the Tribune on Apr. 19. Sam argued that the release of The Gilded Age was truly to be “the literary event of the year,” and that it demanded larger type and a more prominent place in the paper than a small corner on the editorial page [MTL 5: 346]. Reid responded favorably, probably by telegraph, offering to print another notice [MTL 5: 352n3].