April 10 Thursday – Paulo Fambry wrote from Italy seeking Sam’s permission to translate CY into Italian and to dramatize part of it [MTP].

Joe Goodman wrote to Sam sorry that things about the typesetter and Senator Jones “have so missed fire and that” Sam was “in such a strait.” He thought Jones had been sincere in his promises but was simply busy and put things off. The “damned Silver bill, you see, has all to be done over again.” Joe had written Jones urging him to “run up to Hartford, if for nothing else than to relieve you from the embarrassment of whether he intends to do anything or not.” Joe could do nothing more from Fresno. John W. Mackay sounded more hopeful and Joe thought Mackay was going East about the first of this month, and if he did not go to look at the machine himself, he “could send Dick Dey, in whom he has great confidence, and who has lots of executive ability” Why didn’t Sam go to Washington again and “make the best fight” he could before throwing in the sponge [MTP]. Editorial emphasis.