October 10 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster, again about getting “Dean” and about designs for P&P [MTP].

Sam also replied to the Oct. 9 of Stephen C. Massett, with an apology for his last note (see Oct. 7 letter).

“Now one of my pet aversions is the pun. I cannot abide a pun. I thought you would know me well enough by this time, to know that a couple of stickfuls of matter containing a half a dozen puns, was (by that sign) not mine, even if my name was signed to it” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to James R. Osgood: “Forgot to say I expressed the original MS [P&P] to you some time ago from Elmira.” Two other letters to Osgood are listed for this date from an American Art Association catalog sale in 1925, one about brass-casting. [MTP].

Karl Gerhardt wrote to Sam and Livy about his progress in sculpting and the difficulties in finding “a petite apartment which cost no more and in several ways is much better for the winter” [MTP]