December 27 Monday – Bruce W. Munro wrote from Toronto, Canada to Sam: “I beg to have the honor of sending you in about a week’s time a copy of my book “A Blundering Boy.” Munro asked for a brief comment from Sam on the book. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Review his book” [MTP].

Paul E. Wirt of the Paul E. Wirt Fountain Pen Co. Wrote from Bloomsburg, Penn. Wirt had heard that Sam had “spoken favorably” of their pen to H.M. Smith & Co., N.Y. agents and asked for the “commendatory letter, — or what would be better a direct line to us” [MTP].