December 6 Tuesday – Gale puts Sam as a guest at George B. Harvey’s dinner for Henry James [Henry James Encyclopedia 683].

Ralph W. Ashcroft wrote two letters to Sam. “I arrived here yesterday (Monday) and saw MacAlister yesterday afternoon; he is to arrange a meeting for Thursday next between Bergheim and me at which MacAlister will be present. At this meeting, the three of us will fully discuss matters.” From Ashcroft’s second, written on Midland Grand Hotel, London stationery: “I forgot to say…that Sharpe said they had asked you to attend that December 22d meeting for them. Don’t do so. Our position is that those who have called the meeting are not the legal officers of the Co. If we went to it, we would thereby recognize its validity” [MTP].