March 27 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Andrew Chatto after receiving his message that he’d not received the final batch of copy for Tramp. Evidently, Elisha Bliss had dropped the ball on coordinating materials and cabling the date of publication to Chatto. Sam responded that they had issued the book a week before, and that he would hurry Chatto’s note to Bliss as it was too late to telephone [MTLE 5: 54]. Sam was forever spurring and prodding Bliss to make schedules and to coordinate materials to “simultane.”

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam. “No, Bliss has not obeyed your order to send the book [TA]—blast him!….Your Koalatype works wonderfully. We have the copy you sent on our center-table” [MTP].

Ella L. Cretass and Nancy A. Kelly  “Nice spinsters” wrote from Coldwater, Mich. to send Sam an Easter card (“Now is Christ Risen”) and to compliment him on RI [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “A fraud, I guess”. Does this reflect Sam’s secret opinion of Christ’s resurrection, or of the spinsters?

Mary Keily wrote from the Asylum in Lancaster Penn, but did not finish/mail the long rambling letter until Apr. 14 [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “The lunatic Mary Keily / clipping”; no clipping in file.