April 22 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Frank Fuller. He talked of a “vaporizer” investment (“Mr. Furbish’s stimulant”). “About a fortnight hence,” Sam planned to “run down to Washington for a few days, on a sort of copyright-law project.” Would Frank like to go with him? [MTLE 5: 82].

Sam also wrote to William Dean Howells, sending a piece to consider for the “Contributors’ Club” of the Atlantic. The piece as revealed by Howells’ answer of Apr. 25, was “Conversation by Telephone” [MTLE 5: 84; MTHL 1: 303]. (See entry.)

William H. Gillette wrote from Cincinnati to give the results of their season and to ask if Sam knew any man who might make a good agent “with a name and reputation” [MTP].