April 9 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall asking him to:

…ransack your safe for my old contracts with American Publishing Co. and if you can’t find them require them of Webster, who has without doubt carted them off in obedience to his native disposition to smouch all unwatched property. I think the contracts may enable me to forbid those people to issue cheap editions without my privity and consent…We will issue cheap editions — especially if they do not approve [MTLTP 271-2].

William Armitage wrote from Bryn Mawr College to Sam, enclosing a bill of lading for “your things. I was told not to ship them until you came on in April else they would have been sent before.” Armitage asked reimbursement of $2.15 costs [MTP].