May 4 Friday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam, down with bronchitis again, wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
I have your note, dear lady Charlotte, & of course I say “Yes”—quite willingly, too.
Professor Giddings’s article is remorselessly severe, but it is all good sense. The editorial is sane, also. The whole case is as pitiful as it can be—that of those poor Gorkys, I mean.
The doctor has been here—it was not I but others who invited him—& I am to remain in bed two or three days. There are two “fastest” Boston trains—the 10 a.m. & the 1 p.m., & I shall take the latter when I go. Monday? Yes, I think—if I shall have learned your plans by noon of that day; otherwise I will wait & go Tuesday. This, on the guess that the doctor will offer no objections.
I hope your work will go smoothly & pleasantly & satisfactorily, & I am sure it will [MTP]. Note: Sam would need a few more days to recover He would leave New York on May 14.
Frederick A. Duneka wrote a short note to Sam. “I am enclosing proofs of your article on Mr. Howells. It seems to me that perhaps a line or two might be changed in the second paragraph. In reading it over, I am again surprised at its exquisite charm. / A check will follow when we get the proofs back” [MTP].
John T. Fenlon for Lincoln Farm Assoc. wrote to advise Sam that the association had been “duly incorporated…with you as one of the original twenty-one incorporators.” “No stock will be issued and no liability of any kind is assumed by you, the purposes being purely patriotic as given above” [MTP].
I have your note, dear lady Charlotte, & of course I say “Yes”—quite willingly, too.
Professor Giddings’s article is remorselessly severe, but it is all good sense. The editorial is sane, also. The whole case is as pitiful as it can be—that of those poor Gorkys, I mean.
The doctor has been here—it was not I but others who invited him—& I am to remain in bed two or three days. There are two “fastest” Boston trains—the 10 a.m. & the 1 p.m., & I shall take the latter when I go. Monday? Yes, I think—if I shall have learned your plans by noon of that day; otherwise I will wait & go Tuesday. This, on the guess that the doctor will offer no objections.
I hope your work will go smoothly & pleasantly & satisfactorily, & I am sure it will [MTP]. Note: Sam would need a few more days to recover He would leave New York on May 14.
Frederick A. Duneka wrote a short note to Sam. “I am enclosing proofs of your article on Mr. Howells. It seems to me that perhaps a line or two might be changed in the second paragraph. In reading it over, I am again surprised at its exquisite charm. / A check will follow when we get the proofs back” [MTP].
John T. Fenlon for Lincoln Farm Assoc. wrote to advise Sam that the association had been “duly incorporated…with you as one of the original twenty-one incorporators.” “No stock will be issued and no liability of any kind is assumed by you, the purposes being purely patriotic as given above” [MTP].
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