August 12 Thursday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to George B. Harvey.
Dear Colonel: / It was lovely of Mrs. Harvey & Dorothy & Jessica to come & see me, & it would be lovely if you & Dunneka or the Major would do the same. I can shelter two of you any week-end, or week-middle.
And you would better come very soon, because I am preparing for another world, & yesterday afternoon & last night the prospects were good. I am practicing for all emergencies—both directions, up & down: with wings in the morning, parachute in the afternoon. /Yours ever / ... [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Aage Toxen Worm.
A. Toxen-Worm, Esq— / Dear Sir: If the Herald is not acquainted with Blix’s name & fame (which I doubt), his pictures would be a better introduction than anybody’s words could furnish, I think. I think his Mona Lisa would be a sufficient introduction, all by itself, I possess the original, & it is a daily delight to me. It is a caricature, & yet it is the Mona her very self, so slight, so delicate & so unobtrusive in the holy smirk which Blix has insinuated into that reverend old graveyard face. It is very dear to me, because to me it is Mother Eddy, our own Mother Eddy when she has been doing the human race & is enjoying the memory of it all alone in private by herself. It may be that this caricature has its match in the world somewhere, but I will doubt until somebody points it out to me. / Very truly yours / … [MTP]. Note: Aage Toxen Worm (1866-1922), born in Denmark as Conrad Henrik Aage Toxen Worm was a well known theatrical press agent, who for the last years of his life was associated with Shubert Theatrical Enterprises, New York.