May 6 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “The Osbornes 7.30 850 Madison ave / Ask about gravestones. Sail Sunday 12, or Monday? Invite Twichell & Harvey? Or Corey? Harry Harper proposition” [NB 44 TS 10].

At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Frank Parsons (1854-1908), professor at Boston University and also at Ruskin College, Trenton, Mo., declining an unspecified invitation, as he already had enough engagements [MTP]. Note: Sam dictated and signed this typewritten per “F.A.R.,” who was Frances A. Ramsay, a stenographer often used during this period.

Rudyard Kipling wrote to thank Sam:

for the help you have given me by your testimony in my small suit against Fenno the Benevolent Publisher, and I am also immensely pleased to see by the papers that you, on your own account, are chasing a Fenno through the swampy ground of the Law. If you catch him will you please scalp him for me and I’ll give you half of G.H. Putnam’s scalp—when I get it [MTP].