February 22 Sunday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall about the mock-up of Mark Twain’s Memory Builder and his new book that would become The American Claimant:

When you get the dummy finished, steal a few hours from work & bring it up yourself & we will make some plans concerning the new Col. Sellers book which I am writing [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Joe Goodman about Senator John P. Jones:

Think of this penny-worshipping humbug & shuffler coming the lofty silent-contempt dodge with you & me! Why it is really a very good sagebrush imitation of the Deity. Hasn’t answered my letter.

Sam noted, “how, all the time, Mrs. Goodman scoffed at us (with a fatally true instinct) for believing in this fraud’s promises.” [MTP].