August 26 Thursday – Frederick J. Hall wrote Sam about the job of gathering statistics from newspapers:

I have visited nearly all the large Agencies, but they will not undertake the job; however, I think I have some one now who will put it through successfully. Will let you know positively in a few days. They all say it is a very difficult piece of work, and rather out of their line. Rowell refuses to undertake it at any price.

Hall also announced that he’d made a deal with a “responsible party” for the Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee region with a guarantee of 10,000 books sold of the Pope’s biography [MTP].

Andrew Chatto wrote, updating progress on the sales of books in England [MTP].