May 5 Saturday – Frederick J. Hall for Webster & Co. wrote to Sam asking if it was too late to do anything about the William Thompson Walters art book. He also enclosed “a letter and also two chapters from a manuscript by Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard” —  possibly Howard’s My Life and Experiences published by A.D. Worthington of Hartford in about 1907 [MTHL 2: 246n1&5].

Sam finished the note to Annie Eliot Trumbull, begun the day before, May 4. More German and one parenthetical, “Asks ‘em to meet here, you know” [MTP]. Note: it’s not clear if the meeting was to be the same day Sam sent Annie this note or sometime later.

Sam’s notebook: Sat., May 5, ’88, the World had 185 compositors at work. It would take 37 machines to supply their place [MTNJ 3: 385].