April 27 Friday – In the evening at 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Gertrude Natkin.

Those lovely flowers & that precious valley!—certainly you are a dear sweet little girl, Marjorie; there’s none dearer nor sweeter. I am hereby answering that valley with another, you dear child; also I am sending an Aūf wiedersehen along with it, & thereto the injunction that when the wiedersehen occurs next fall it shall find you a little girl still. Cling to your blessed youth—the valuable time of life—don’t part with it till you must. / With love, & good-byes, & lots of blots— / SLC [MTAq 27].

April 27 ca. – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote wrote thanks to Frederick J. Hall: “Glad to have that letter it will do to go into the MS” [MTP]. Note: the MS referred to may have been the autobiography soon to run in the North American Review v. 183-186 1906-7.