February 25 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Millard, at Waldorf, lec. on China War. Shall I go?” [NB 44 TS 6]. Note: Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard (1868-1942), journalist, editor, founder of China Weekly Review. He was also a war corresondent for the N.Y. Herald and had articles printed in several N.Y. papers. He supported Sam in the Ament indemnity controversy.

G.W. Patterson of St. Johnsbury East, Vermont, wrote to Sam after reading his article in the N.A.R., enclosing a poem he entitled, “The East to the West” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “A fine poem”