December 22 Tuesday – In Berlin Sam wrote to Chatto & Windus asking for four P&P’s “nicely bound.” He enclosed the second of six syndicate letters.

I will send the rest myself from month to month as they appear, so that you can set up the little book at your leisure [MTP]. Note: Sam proposed a booklet named, “Recent Glimpses of Europe” made from the six syndicated Europe letters.

Sam also began a lengthy letter to Frederick J. Hall, which he finished Dec. 23. He enclosed one of the Bayreuth letters. Sam made suggestions for the cheap editions of his works. He was disappointed in the $1 edition of HF, which had only sold 7,000 copies. Originally he’d envisioned a 10-cent series, but now suggested a 25-cent series, since CY was already out at that price [MTLTP 295-6].

Sam signed with both autographs and an aphorism to an unidentified person: Berlin, 22 December 1891: “Never put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day after tomorrow just as well” [MTP].