December 17 Tuesday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Ralph David Blumenfeld.

I have had a stunner from Virchow on what he calls Cellular Chirography. I have never seen so many long words. They twirl and twist like so many long words. They twirl and twist like a like a cowboy’s lariat. I have responded to-day by sending him a copy of my new book, ‘The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.’ Let him chew on that awhile” [MTP: R.D. Blumenfeld, In the Days of Bicylcles & Bustles, 1930, p.168-9]. Note: Sam had conferred with Prof. Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow on Plasmon.

Sam also wrote two sentences to Mr Fischer: “I am very glad to have that. I shall keep it till I get a chance to use it” [MTP]. Note: the reference is obscure, but this may be to the journalist Henry W. Fisher (Fischer).

Sam also wrote to Jules Hart.

If you use my yesterday’s letter, please erase the last two words (“when drunk.”) Also please erase the inverted commas which enclose the word “Civilization” (leaving it unquoted, thus: Civilization.)

With these coarsenesses expunged the letter will be decent enough [MTP].

Grace Mildred Klappert (Mrs. William Klappert) wrote from Cincinnati, Ohio to Sam. She’d written him in Austria and rec’d a reply from Franklin Whitmore, but nothing relative to her questions, which were about genealogy of the McLellan family and the Clemens family, and a D.A.R. application which she enclosed—were they accurate? [MTP]. Note: Sam nearly always referred genealogical questions.