November 15 Monday – Charles Webster wrote to Sam about a book they might publish:

Henry Clews wants us to publish a book written by him entitled “Twenty Eight Years in Wall St.,” being personal recollections of eminent capitalists [MTLTP 209n1]. (See Sam’s answer Nov. 17). Note: this was one of an “avalanche of offers” stemming from success of the Grant Memoirs.

Charles H. Clark wrote complimenting Sam on his “irresistibly funny” reading of segments that would become CY, which Clark had seen in the N.Y. papers. “It was a sensible talk in the way of protest against the infernal prosaic, practical, make-a-dollar nineteenth Century” [MTP].