February 20 Saturday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer.
Attention, you dear little tyke!
You will have a long vacation at Easter; can’t you & your mother spend it with us? I do hope so. When Ashcroft-Benares goes to New York Tuesday, I want him to catch your mother on the telephone & discuss the matter with her. / With lots of love [MTP; MTAg 251].
Sam’s brief article, “A Capable Humorist” ran in Harper's Weekly, Hill calls it “uninspired” [218]. See also [Tenney, ALR Second Annual Supplement to the Reference Guide (Autumn, 1978) 176].
Sam’s new guestbook (signed):
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Mary Lawton | New York | Feb. 20 | |
| Clara Clemens | N.Y. & Stormfield | " " |
Herman Bernstein wrote from Brooklyn to Sam. “I take the liberty of sending you a few extracts from Leonid Andreyev’s story of the Seven Who Were Hanged” and asked if Clemens would “write a few lines as an introduction to Andreyev’s story, which Bernstein planned to have published in book form [MTP]. Note: two enclosures are in the file one an article from The Independent, “A Story Which Will Never Be Finished” by Andreyev, and the other a full page from the Nov. 8, 1908 NY Times, title of “The Seven Who Were Hanged.” Not in Gribben.
Archibald Henderson signed a Registry Return Receipt to Sam confirming the return of his MS [MTP].
Lotos Club per Alexander C. Humphreys wrote to invite Sam to a dinner for Andrew Carnegie at the club house on Wed., Mar. 17 at 6:30. “The Board sincerely hopes that you will be able to accept, and be prepared to say a few words” [MTP].