May 12 Wednesday — Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Henryetta M. Holst [?] | May 12th 1909 | Thinks she [deserves] real house. Hope in [time] to be one of the [citizens] of [Heaven]. |
John F. Bernard wrote from Grafton, W. Va. to Sam.
My dear “Indolent” Friend; —
About 1875 you delivered a lecture on Artemis Ward, at the Academy of Music, Phila. You closed the lecture by reciting a verse or two, entitled, Has He Gone to the Land where there’s No Laughter.
You replied to a letter I sent you at the time, (which I still have) saying the verses appeared in a London paper, but, could not say where they could be found. Is the inclosed, used by Mr. Winter, in Sat. Eve. Post, of this week past of the poem you recited at that time? [MTP]. Note: 8 line poem in file.
G. Stanley Hall for Clark University, Worcester, Mass. wrote to ask Sam to “give us an address” in their cause of “unity of the child” [MTP]. Note: “Ans’d May 18, ‘09”
G.E. Myers for Park & Tilford, NYC wrote to Sam. “Enclosed please find copy of purchases, and also as they were paid, according to our ledger. This is the request made by you in our office to Mr. Myers” [MTP].