February 8 Saturday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam replied to Frederic Remington’s query of Feb. 7. Sam did not remember the names, but he knew there had been newspapers at St. Joseph and Independence, Mo. some 50 years before. He recommended Remington check the Mercantile Library in St. Louis [MTP].

Sam went into N.Y.C. where he spoke to the Vassar Alumnae [Feb. 10 to Marbury].

Elisabeth Marbury wrote to Sam, enclosing a check for $59.43 as Sam’s net royalties on the PW play for week ending Dec. 28, 1901 to week ending Jan. 18, 1902 [MTP].

The New York Times¸ Feb. 7, reported that on Feb. 8 the child actress Beatrice Abbey (later, aka Mrs. Ethel Foster Hollearn) would play the lead role in the Children’s Theatre play at Carnegie Hall: “Little Lady and Lord Cromwell,” based on Sam’s story, “The Death Disk” (aka “The Death Wafer”) which first appeared in the Dec. 1901 Harper’s Monthly Magazine.

Sam’s notebook gives on this date a list of seemingly unrelated items followed by: “Delmoni go at 2/15 / Mrs. Trask, 140 W. 46th” [NB 45 TS 3].