February 28 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Krause Dinner / Brander Matthews—1.30 p.m. 681 West End Ave cor. 93d street” [NB 45 TS 4].

Alvey Augustus Adee wrote to Sam on Department of State, Washington letterhead (Second Asst. Secretary). He had learned from George Iles that Sam had no copy of 1601, and so made two copies from his own copy and enclosed one, the other going to Iles [MTP]. Note: Iles had visited on Feb. 17.

Muriel M. Pears (“en route for Marseilles and the South”) wrote to Sam.

Dear Sir Valentine, / The warning came too late, for I’d did indoscicate! (sp?) Woe is me, the girl is neither to hold nor to bind for pride and vainglory ever since that last American mail came in. My love to the Donzella for her quite sweet letter, and will she help me please telepath round Kitchener of Khartoum so that he will let my big brother go? Then Loraine will take me over to New York between breaths, and if Providence is still kind to us—! But first we have to get through three months in Italy and June in London, and after all the Boys and I have had so much already…..even Rudyard Kipling would be jealous by now of the Luck of the Dearest Man that Ever was a vainglorious Valentine / Muriel Pears [MTP]. Note: well, it doesn’t make much sense, but there it is.