December 14 Wednesday – Jeannette L. Gilder wrote:

Your letter received today has taught me a lesson. The person who wrote that communication to the Critic is a well known man, a writer & man of position whom I have known for a long time. I foolishly published his card without looking up the article referred to. Had I turned to the pages of the Century Magazine I would have seen at once that you unhesitatingly acknowledged the story as one of the [illegible word]. I do not think the writer of the card was malicious…He has already been taken to task by another correspondent [MTP] Note: Sam wrote on the letter, “Gilder’s reply was prompt, and manly” (except Jeannette was hardly a man).