April 8 Wednesday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam’s about Frank Bliss’s Apr. 4 letter which objected to the issuance of a cheap edition of HF:

[Bliss’ letter is] the strongest argument possible in favor of the cheap edition….They know if we get out cheap editions of our book that it will make a demand for a cheap edition of the books that they publish, and I think it will force them into making some arrangement with us whereby we can get out a uniform edition of your books [MTNJ 3: 613n142].

Joseph R. Hawley wrote he was unable to come for dinner as he had to leave for Washington [MTP].

Caroline B. Le Row wrote from Brooklyn hoping Sam “very much indeed” would join the American Society of Authors. She enclosed a N.Y. Tribune clipping, which named Rev. Dr. Ingersoll, chairman, and Le Row as secretary. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Authors’ Society — a screaming stupid lot” [MTP].