December 2 Monday – In Hartford Sam wrote a short note to decline Richard Bowker’s Nov. 30 invitation. Bowker was in the forefront of the lobby for international copyright legislation, and his name is familiar today to anyone involved in publishing:

Blessed are the dead that died in the cause. I’ve really got to stay away, this time, & let the other boys conduct the slaughter [MTP].

Sam also wrote a note to Karl Gerhardt, urging him to accept “my typesetting offer” [MTP paraphrase Swann Auction Galleries catalog, Sept. 10, 1942 item 90].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam of Samson Low’s answer to his last cable: “As soon as you like, but no hurry. You will not be overlooked” [MTP].

William F. Hull wrote from N.Y. asking Sam to define a “Free Trade Crank” — something he’d been called by a friend, and neither of them knew the exact meaning of [MTP].

Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote to Sam having received his letter of the 1st — “Which one of the agreements did you sign, 1 or 2? I think they are substantially as we talked them over with Mr. Hamersley and I did not intend to change either of these agreements as to form unless I found something had been omitted from the old agreement which was to your advantage.” The agreements involved the typesetter [MTP].