October 8 Tuesday – Pamela Moffett left the Clemens home after a week visit [Oct. 7 to Langdon]. She sent a postcard from New York that she had arrived there [mentioned in Oct. 9 to Moffett].

Richard R. Bowker for Am. Copyright League sent Sam an invitation to read at the authors’ benefit for copyright at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Dec. 16 [MTNJ 3: 523n133].

Frederick J. Hall reported the agents’ opinions about CY:

…that the church could not possibly hurt it; that it was the Catholic church that would principally attack, and that they were not book buyers anyway [MTLTP 258n2].

 Richard Watson Gilder wrote to Sam:

I suppose you got a telegram from me last night. I was out of town over Sunday. / I am greatly delighted that you can come to the dinner on the 16th and I extend an invitation to our friend Mr. Finlay. He’s just the kind of man we want [MTP].

Dean Sage wrote to Sam that a letter from his father required him to be in Michigan on the 16th for an important law case; he would have to see the typesetter later [MTP]. Note: Sam had urged Sage and his friend Parsons to come to Hartford to inspect the Paige typesetter and to invest in it.