July 14 Friday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam:

I have not cabled you as you requested because none of the things you wished me to cable about have taken place, but I have not forgotten your instructions [MTLTP 352n3]. Note: See June 26 for Sam’s code words he wanted Hall to send for various what-if’s.

Hall also made a suggestion about the possible sale of LAL:

…there is another plan…whereby we would share in the prosperity of the book and at the same time run no risk whatever from any loss arising, that is, if we could get somebody to accept the sole general agency for the book, we merely to manufacture and sell the book to them at a certain discount [MTLTP 353n1].

Note: Hall tried to make such a sale of LAL with Thomas M. Williams, who in 1891 contemplated taking over the book, together with R.S. Peale & Co. of Chicago [n1]. See April 12, 1891 and Jan 25, 1892. LAL would eventually be sold to William Evarts Benjamin, H.H. Rogers’ son-in-law, with a new edition appearing in 1894.