March 28 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “Have asked Bigelow to dinner. Mrs. Koller (see 27th ) Empire Theatre 2.15 p.m. Miss Gibley, 6.50 / Duneka said, ‘Go on just as if the clause was abrogated. I cannot say it will be abrogated, but there will be no bother resulting[’] ” [NB 44 TS 7-8].

At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam replied to the Mar. 23 of Jules Eckert Goodman that Elisabeth Marbury was now his “authorized agent and empowered to make contracts.” Sam thought Goodman should read his MS to her [MTP].

Sam also wrote again to Laura Fitch McQuiston in Fort Hancock, N.J., reporting the arrival of Mrs. E.B. Koller and Miss White, the hypnotist and subject he had referred to in his Mar. 26 to McQuiston. Sam wanted to test the veracity of Mrs. Koller as a medium or spiritualist; McQuiston was desirous of finding out information about her late husband, an officer in the Philippines who was killed there after going insane and attacking his own troops.

She came yesterday. Evidently she & Miss White are exceedingly poor.

I enclose her letter, received this morning. You see what she proposes. You also see that she takes it for granted that your husband fell in battle. If her art is only telepathy, this idea will be transferred from her mind to Miss White’s, & the absence of the supernatural element weill be thereby—revealed? Not certainly, but approximately, at any rate.

Could you—& would you—send her a letter from which not too much information could be gained?

Sam also instructed her to get a “definite price” from Mrs. Koller for her service, and sent her address. Or, if she preferred, she could pass write Sam the information and he would pass it on to Koller [MTP]. Note: In his Apr. 1 to Mrs. McQuiston it is revealed that the letter to be used to test Mrs. Koller was one from the late Charles McQuiston. See also Mar. 31 and Apr. 1 to McQuiston.

Fatout lists a Mark Twain speech at the Players Club dinner this evening. He offers no particulars and none were found [MT Speaking 668].