May 1 Saturday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam wrote to Frank Fuller (likely still in N.Y.C.):

I was very glad to get your letter [not extant], & hear your cheery voice again; but I’m going to wait a while before I wrote you, because there’s fully 2 weeks’ writing to do on this book yet, possibly 3—& I am rushing.

But when I get the decks cleared, then I’ll write you a letter which I’ve had in my mind a year & more.

Sam felt that between the two of them they could “hatch some fun” with the idea (of an expensive grand lecture), but asked Fuller not to mention it to anyone; even Livy “mustn’t suspect” until the time was right [MTP]. Note: Sam was rushed after a couple of times proclaiming the new book was “finished” due to his being convinced by H.H. Rogers, Frank Bliss, but mostly Livy, that the South African campaign should be added.

May 1 ca. to July 31– In an unknown place Sam wrote one sentence to Frank Bliss asking him to make a facsimile of “the above two lines” instead of setting them in type [MTP]. Note: likely in connection with FE.