June 28 Saturday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam, enclosing a June 27 letter by Edmund C. Stedman protesting Webster & Co.’s use of the phrase “Great War Library” in connection with the Civil War generals’ memoirs. Hall wrote:

Mr. Stedman evidently thinks that because he used the word “library” on the “Library of American Literature” that that word was thereafter to be stricken from the English language. He also seems to think that because we publish a book of his compilation that it gives him the right to interfere in our business generally, which, in my opinion, is a piece of unmitigated impudence [MTLTP 261n2]. Note: Sam’s answer, see June 30 entry.

Orion Clemens finished his June 27: Ma wanted to see Sam. The weather was hot, 97 degrees. [MTP].