December 9 Sunday – [date in PDF box]

Sam’s notebook: “Meet Wn— / Lunch, 1.30 Felix Adler, 123 East 60th / Dinner, 8— Jorda[n Mott] first to meet Churchill—/ 17 E 47th” [NB 43 TS 30-1]. Note: “Wn” may be Winston. Jordan Lawrence Mott, Jr. (1829-1915) inherited the JL Mott Iron Works upon the death of his father in 1898. This name fixes also with the same address Sam listed in his NB Felix Adler (1851-1933), Jewish intellectual who founded the Society for Ethical Culture; in 1902 took the chair of political and social ethics at Columbia University. He is considered as a major influence on Humanistic Judaism.

Carl Schurz wrote on mourning note paper to Sam. “I have taken the liberty of sending you copies of two of my speeches on Imperialism, one made before the Chicago University on Jan 4 1899 while the peace treaty was still under [illegible word] and the other in the late presidential campaign.” He hoped to meet with Twain while he was in N.Y. [MTP].