March 22 Sunday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Annie B. Jennings accepting provisionally her invitation to read for the New York YWCA. His conditions were that the date be Apr. 23, that he be third on the reading list if there were four or five readers, no later than fourth if there were more than five. See Apr. 22 entry when Sam gave the reading.

In no case can I be the reader who closed the performance; and in no case shall I arrive too late from Hartford. If these conditions are not too exacting you may set me down for one brief reading, recitation, like, or burst of statistics, which ever you think will do the most good [MTP].