August 16 Friday – Dorothy Quick wrote from the Truell Inn, Plainfield, N.J. to Sam.

It’s just a week since I last saw you and I miss you very much indeed I did not go to Long Island on Tuesday you see my Granpa wanted me this week but mother and I will surely go next week it is lovely down there but I like it much better here, the pictures I took did not turn out well but I am enclosing those that did there is one very good one of you and me which Miss Lyon took and I will send you one when I get it, I wish I could read to you a little while this morning: would you like it too? I am going to study very hard this winter for I want to write stories when I grow up if I do what do you think would be a good name to use? I forgot to tell you I have Mr. Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland signatures and I have written for lots of others with lots of love and a big hug and a great many kisses I am your / Little Dorothy / Lots of love and kisses for Miss Lyon [MTAq 52].

Ossian Lang wrote from NYC to Sam, suggesting that Lewis Elmer Trescott, a poet in Glenwood, Long Island, be included in Sam’s hypothetical “Library of Literary Hogwash”

[MTP]. Note: see Sam’s reply on Aug. 21.

Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.