May 17 Saturday – Webster & Co. wrote advising Sam they’d sent out some 600 circular letters lately to various students, though some 60 were returned for more postage, even all were had the same postage [MTP]. The student marketing effort was intended to keep up sales of CY throughout the summer.

The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique sent a 17” x 8” colored layout of the cabins aboard their liners, the SS La Bourgogne & La Gascogne. A penciled date marked at the top appears to be in Sam’s hand and the first ship named is lined out; several rooms aft are marked with vertical lines; the key denotes these as “outside Cabins with two berths and a sofa” [MTP].