January 24 Thursday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam finished his Jan. 23 to Joe Twichell, confirming that Livy approved of Joe staying with them; asked for a day or two notice should he come.

I’m going to stick close to my desk for a month, now, hoping to write a small book, full of playful & good-natured contempt for the lousy McKinley. Oh, think of that nickel-plated Joe Hawley! / P.S. I forgot to add my gratification at the prospect of having flogging for certain offenses resumed in our State. I hope the bill will become a law. Flogging is the only thing that has ever put a serious check upon the crimes & trespasses contemplated by it [MTP].

Sam’s notebook: “Thursday Club Bigelow 21 Gramercy Park” [NB 44 TS 4]. Note: Fatout lists a reading at the Thursday Evening Club, N.Y.C. for this date, but does not give the text [MT Speaking 668]. Another reading for this club was on Mar. 7 at Prof. William Milligan Sloane’s home. Sloane (1850-1928) was professor of history at Princeton (1883-1889) and at Columbia University (1896-1928); He was the founder and first president of the US Olympic Committee and led the first American Olympic team to the 1896 summer games in Athens. See entries for Sloane in Vol. II. See Gribben p. 647.

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85 self 200.00