March 9 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Grand Opera House—8.15. 23d St & 8th Ave” [NB 44 TS 7]. Note: The Metropolitan Opera House advertised the Grand Opera Season 1900-1901. “TO-NIGHT, at 8, at Popular Prices. Double Bill.—I PAGLIACCI (in Italian.). Miss Fritzi Scheff; MM. Salignac, Pini-Corsi, and Scotti. To be followed by CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (in Italian.) Mmes. Gadski and Louise Homer; MM. Campanari and Cremonini. Conductor, Flon” [New York Times, 9 Mar. 1901, p. 16].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam, having received his Mar. 8 letter about the $1,744.20 bill that wouldn’t die, the one to Pratt & Whitney some years before for estimating the cost of building a typesetter. Whitmore acknowledged receipt of the letter and also a telegram [not extant] on the matter. The late “Mr. Robinson did advise with the company and did state that owing to the fact that a portion of the Webster plant at Chicago was ordered of the Pratt & Whitney Co., in his opinion the claim was settled as far as you were concerned.” Whitmore also forwarded many newspaper articles about the “Sitting in Darkness” article [MTP]. Note: MTHHR 458n1: “As early as 10 January 1891 (CWB), and as recently as June 1898 (Whitmore to SLC, 28 June), they had tried to collect from Clemens.” Sam then wrote to H.H. Rogers and enclosed Whitmore’s letter. See Mar. 11.

Sam tried several locations without luck to hunt up Moncure D. Conway [Mar. 10 to Conway].