June 8 Monday – Clara Clemens’ 29th birthday.
Sam’s notebook: “Visit & ask Duneka if he has proof that [Bliss] has transgressed. Show MS to Mr. Rogers. / [Horiz. Line separator] / See Collier & Mr. Rog. / [Horiz. Line separator] / is it 1/2 above cost on all books, old & uniform?” [NB 46 TS 18].
In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Thomas F. Gatts, attorney in St. Louis for the 1904 Fair, “touched deeply by the desire of my friends of Hannibal to confer these great honors” but unable to accept them. Sam did not wish to “become a party to my own exalting. I am humanly fond of honors that happen, but chary of those that come by canvass & intention” [MTP].
James B. Pond wrote from NYC to Sam. “We do not announce, as usual, ‘Mark appeared half an hour late, but he was prompt on time’; but I could not be there to open a show, under any conditions. I am started on a long journey, and if we keep moving from this on, it will be a long one.” Pond confessed “a long struggle,” a “winter of pain that could never be described” and sent his best to the family [MTP].