January 19 Monday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to David A. Munro, editor of the North American Review to remind him that if McCrackan’s article wasn’t included in the March issue, then Sam wanted to be in it himself [MTP].
Isabel V. Lyon. wrote for Sam to George Iles. Sam was too busy to answer himself, but he passed on thanks for an unspecified book which contained poetry which Thomas B. Reed had recited during his yachting last spring. Sam had to decline an unspecified invitation, citing again Livy’s health [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Lucretia T. Osborn.
The grace & charm & fragrance of the rose are the proper poetic remembrance of that pleasant evening in your beautiful home. Mrs. Clemens thanks you heartily by my hand, she not being quite able, as yet, to do it with her own . . . she hopes that we may have the pleasure of seeing you & Professor Osborn out here, & of renewing & refreshing & revivifying an acquaintanceship so pleasantly & so prosperously begun . . . [MTP: Swann Galleries, 16 Oct. 1975, Item 240].
Sam’s notebook: “Joe & Dennis / John P. Jones made them rich by Big Bonanza. / John Mackay / Tales of Mrs. Mackay” [NB 46 TS 7].
Robert Reid for Players Club wrote to Sam on a 4×6 card. “Dear St. Mark—a thousand pardons for this delay in answering your wonderful letter!—I’ve been waiting to see what could be done, & this is the first moment anything has happened” [MTP]. Note: relates to his being dropped for lack of dues. Reid enclosed his card, address 142 East 33rd street, and “Saturdays afternoon” as his receiving time, a common practice of the day.