May 10 Monday - Ralph W. Ashcroft wrote to Sam, enclosing a bill from Altman for $13.95 and a list of purchases and payments to Wanamaker’s Dept. Store—neither in the MTP file. He closed with mention of a “Scarlet Taniger Guest Coat” saying it did not belong to him: “It was ordered at your request for the use of guests, and the buttons are stamped S.L.C.” A second page with this date, also on Ashcroft’s NYC letterhead details “extra work in the preparation of data covering the financial affairs of S.L. Clemens for the fiscal years ending February 28, 1908 and February 28, 1909, for submission to H.H. Rogers” for $50 [MTP].
Dudley P. Lewis for the Springfield (Mass.) Boys’ Club wrote to ask for a signed photo tell sell at their celebration to raise funds for a building fund. After his signature he wrote, “Your name came to my mind, because of my happy memory of a visit to your Fifth Avenue home when I was a senior in 1906 in New York Law School” [MTP]. Note: “Ans’d May 18, ‘09”