November 20 Wednesday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Miss Hart (not further identified): “I am very glad indeed to comply” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to C.E. Starr in Daytona, Fla.: “The Unabridged could not improve upon Mrs. Starr’s definition: ‘scrambled brains’ drives the centre” [MTP]. Note: Starr is not identified but a Mar. 21, 1899 letter from C.E. Starr, Daytona to the editor, NY Times criticized the Spanish Am. war effort; several notices in the 1903 Daytona Gazette announced Mr. & Mrs. Starr to be traveling in Europe. This was not the family doctor, M. Allen Starr.