August 6, 1902 Wednesday

August 6 Wednesday – In York Harbor, Maine Sam wrote a short note to Franklin G. Whitmore, on the top of H.H Rogers’ Aug. 5 letter. “Dear Brer: The following shows that Mr. Rogers disapproves. So do I, then, for I have the greatest confidence in his judgment” [MTP].

Sam also replied to John M. Sosey, secretary of the Missouri Press Assoc.

I have received your note of the 1st inst., informing me of my election to honorary membership in the Missouri Press Association, and I beg to return through you to the Association my sincerest thanks for the compliment thus conferred upon me—a compliment which I hold in especial value, coming, as it does, from the press of my native state [MTP: Southern Literary Journal, Fall 1987, Vol. 20, No.1, p.18].