April 7 Tuesday – Frederick Fitzgerald wrote to Sam that “General Hawley would be in town off and on for five or six days” and was presently at the City Hotel [MTP]. Note: evidently Fitzgerald worked for Hawley, whom Sam wanted to see.

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that Chatto & Windus offered them a book, The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Mrs. Alexander Ireland, who, it was said, had “exclusive information.” Sam wrote on the envelope, “Might try sheets — a trifling quantity — but I don’t think anything of the Carlyle book. SLC” [MTP].