November 7 Saturday – In Berlin at 7 Körnerstrasse, Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall. Sam needed two copies of his 1888 Meisterschafft. He also complimented Hall’s management of Webster & Co.

You make a most excellent showing for a three-years’ up-building of a business which was in ruins. I am most anxious to know the result of Mr. Williams’ trip. Much depends on it [MTLTP 290].

Note: Thomas M. Williams was considering undertaking sales of the Library of American Literature and make it the “work of his life.” See Hall’s Dec. 16.

Sam’s notebook: “Saturday, mid-afternoon, 7th. Meter marks 10,100” [NB 31 TS 9].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam (not extant) asking questions and making suggestions about a proposed Europe book [Nov. 20 to Hall].

Susy Clemens wrote to Louise Brownell (postmarked Nov. 12 but designated “Saturday A.M.”) Susy mentioned she had seen Wagner’s Lohengrin “the other night for the first time.” Kaplan writes that “the singing in Lohengrin reminded Sam of ‘the time the orphan asylum burned down’” [312]. Note: this opera was not mentioned in connection with the Bayreuth Wagner festival, so a Berlin performance was likely Sam’s first exposure to it.

Charles E. Flandrau, atty. for Flandrau, Squires & Cutcheon, St. Paul, Minn. sent Sam a note and a check for $81.75 as a dividend of 1&1/2% on shares of St. Paul Roller Mill Co. [MTP].