March 22 Tuesday – At the Villa Reale di Quarto near Florence Sam added a PS to his Mar. 21 to H.H. Rogers.
March 22/04 P. S. I have a third dividend (this one is an interim) from the English Plasmon Co. It is three 7% dividends in eleven months on the £5,000 I put in there. If I had kept out of American Plasmon I would now be a good business man; but as it is, I am only half a good business man. / SLC [in left margin:] Mrs. Clemens sat up 15 minutes today without damage [MTHHR 559-61].
Isabel Lyon wrote for Sam to H.E. Fisher, Conklin Pen Co. “Thanks very much. Other had a habit of delivering too much ink” [MTP].
Sam’s notebook: “Pay the Tuesday calls. Baroness & Spanish consul. / Also Countess Montjoye? / No, Saturday” [NB 47 TS 7]. Note: Marchesa Alli Macarani.
John Y. MacAlister wrote from Leysin Sanitarium, Switzerland, to Sam. He had received good news about his disease (tuberculosis) this day, learning that in facing such a disease in that place of death “one must try to laugh or go mad or die” [MTP].
Pietro Sbisa, photographer with offices in Rome and Florence wrote to Sam, offering to come to his villa “for take few pictures and your portrait,” and asked for his reply [MTP].