June 30 Monday – Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall, responding to Edmund C. Stedman’s “piece of unmitigated impudence.”

The letter accounts for Arthur Stedman [son of Edmund, working at Webster & Co.]: idiotcy runs in the family.

It requires no notice of any kind. Treat it with contemptuous silence — that and all similar letters from that pair of quite too wonderful people [MTLTP 261].

John C. Kinney for Hartford Post Office wrote to Sam about a letter from Sam to Miss Duvall at Smith College mailed on June 23 and reported missing; a note from Arthur Water for the Northampton Post Office to Kinney of this same date says the lost letter was found on June 27 [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam: “Dan Beard says that he wants to make whatever drawings are made for the posters in advertising the ” CY “play, and also the drawings of costumes, as he has made a study of that subject. I told him I didn’t know who had charge of the matter but I would mention it to you.” Hall also mentioned a book proposed, Justice and Jurisprudence, An Inquiry Concerning the Constitutional Limitations of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment. but did not mention the author, only that he “bore wonderful commendatory epistles from men like Carnegie, President Harrison, Associate Justice Waite, etc.” Hall didn’t think there was any money in the book [MTP]. Note: the book was by “The Brotherhood of Liberty” and published by J.B. Lippincott in 1889.