July 24 Sunday – In Bad Nauheim, Germany at the Kaiserhof Hotel, Sam began a letter to Frederick J. Hall that he finished on July 27.

I have not sent that “Ship” article yet — been revising it; but I will mail it within the next six days — and will register it. Please look out for it about August 12th to 15th.

Part of this delay was because I have written three-fourths of another article & thought I might finish it and send it, too; but I see that it is going to string itself out to two articles, so I will not wait.

Sam also expressed a wish that he’d seen Samuel S. McClure and negotiated for a definite amount of pay per thousand words, or he’d have to go to magazines where he could get a definite figure. Sam wanted Hall bring up the issue with McClure [MTLTP 312-3].