January 8 Thursday – Sam’s notebook : “1 p.m. Lunch to Harry Harland, by Howells; at Moretti’s, 15 W. 34th” [NB 45 TS 36]. Also: “#435. Lincoln, Dec. 4 $500, ‘making $5,500 thus paid in on sub. of $25,000. / Jan. 15, 1903 Am. Pl. Co, $9,500. # 25 / Endorsed, ‘The American Plasmon Co., R.W. Ashcroft, Treasurer.’ #30. Feb. 3 to ‘Pl. Co. of Am’ $10,000 / Endorsed ‘Cr. Plas. Co. of America’ ‘Endorsement guaranteed’ (by ‘5th Ave. Trust Co’.)” [NB 46 TS 5]. Note: Sam’s check numbers, dates, and amounts paid to subscription calls by American Plasmon Co.
Augustus G. Paine wrote to Sam, who lost his closest friend in Thomas B. Reed. Paine praised Sam’s article about Reed, saying “how well you understood him. Only the other day he said to me ‘Mark Twain’s humor is delightful but that’s not all! He knows things & sees over the heads of good sized men! So he understood you too!” [MTP].
In the evening Sam dined with H.H. Rogers [Jan. 9 to Bliss].