November 24 Sunday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Sylvester Baxter, having decided it unwise to release excerpts of CY in the US prior to publishing elsewhere:

It is a pity to have to relinquish my scheme, but it would imperil my English & Canadian copyright — & our copyright relations are much more strained now than they have ever been before. It was a mistake to publish portions of several chapters in the Century the other day, but I am discovering that fact late in the day.

      Please withhold your article until Dec. 12 or 15; that will make everything safe, I reckon [MTP].

To Baxter’s invitation to come and meet the author Edward Bellamy, Sam put in a PS.

Indeed I would like to be there & meet the man who has made the accepted heaven paltry by inventing a better one on earth, but I am otherwise booked & cannot extricate myself.

Sam also wrote to Frederick J. Hall, sending George Standring’s The People’s History of the English Aristocracy (1887), which he wanted to re-release as a cheap paperback simultaneously with CY [Gribben 657; MTLTP 257-8]. Note: Sam may have wished to do this to counter anticipated attacks on his book.

Jesse A. Gregg wrote from St. Paul, Minn. to Sam, relating that her 4-year-old son, after listening to the CY story, became “Hank” afterward. Sam wrote on the env., “A pleasant letter — preserve it” [MTP].