April 18 Friday – In N.Y.C. William Dean Howells wrote to Sam.

“Come here at one o’clock Saturday the 26th, and go with me to lunch with a lot of good fellows, who want you more than they know. I would not ask you if I did not believe you would have a good talk and a good time” [MTHL 2: 741]. Note: Sam agreed on Apr. 21.

Livy’s diary: “Mr Norman Hapgood here for luncheon. Mrs Hutchins Hapgood here for tea” [MTP: DV161].

Katharine I. Harrison wrote to Sam that she had rec’d “32 (Five hundred dollar) bonds of the American Mechanical Cashier Company and 400 shares of their stock” [MTP].