October 6 Wednesday – In Hartford Sam responded to a letter from Orion Clemens.

Yes, buy Pamela’s ticket & glasses, & use the money in any other ways you please for her, & when the “fund” runs low notify me so that I can re-supply it.

I suppose Sam’s [Moffett} financial exploits distress Pamela, but they delight me….If Sam can be reduced to his shirt-tail, his success in life is assured; he will become a great editor, a man with a continental reputation…nothing in the world but poverty can save him — without it he is booked for failure [MTP].

Sam also wrote a short note of apology for taking so long to decline an invitation of some sort to Gertrude Van R. Wickham.

I beg a thousand pardons — it is all a busy procrastinator can do [MTP].

Francis Wayland Dean at Yale Law School wrote asking if Sam could help Negro student Warner T. McGuinn again for the current year, it would be “an excellent charity,” since he was “last year by examination considerably above the average of his class.” Sam wrote on the envelope, “Send W. $75” [MTP].