May 27, 1903 Wednesday

May 27 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “APH / Noon—Collier / 416 W. 13th / Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. / Patriot & humbug are usually synonymous terms” [NB 46 TS 16].

Lawrence J. Anhalt wrote from NYC to ask Sam’s permission to reprint excerpts from Sam’s Buffalo Express articles, especially, “The Last Words of Great Men” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “If it was matter which I have not used in a book it is because I wanted the message of it to perish. / Send me the Last Words, & let me examine them.”