July 31 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: [chk] #4974. EL Holbrook, $15, July 31 [3: 491].

A.W. Drake for Century Co. wrote to Sam (enclosed in Mary MacDonald’s Aug. 2): “I write to acknowledge the four pen drawings from Miss Mac Donald received through you and also her letter of July 23rd. I have written Miss Mac Donald this morning. Thanking you for having forwarded the drawings, I am….” Drake’s letter to the artist stated her drawings had improved but they were not up to their standard. Sam wrote, “It is an impossible case. Drop it for the present” [MTP].