March 10 Sunday – Franklin and Harriet Whitmore ended their three-day visit at 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y. with Sam [Mar. 12 to Clara].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: The King & Mr. Whitmore played billiards this sabbath day & then at 3 o’clock in a big snowstorm, Mr. & Mrs. Whitmore started for home. It was a pity their visit had to break off so soon; for Mr. Whitfield plays a beautiful game of billiards—“25 to 30% better than I can play”, the King says, & to lose so good an antagonist is a pity. This afternoon the King was droopy & had a touch of gout, which means that he is tired & he ought to have a change. Tonight at dinner he talked about the Tichbourne Case & he told me one or 2 stories which he has been reading from “Causes Celèbres”, one of a set of queer & battered little volumes that he ran across in the library. Mrs. Whitmore said that his mind seems keener than it ever did, & broader & fearlesser. I painted his right foot with iodine, for that wretched twinging has to be taken in hand early. Dr. Halsey reports a continual improvement in Mary’s condition [MTP TS 36-37; also Gribben 462]. Note: Recueil des causes celebres, etc. by Maurice Mejan (1765-1823).
The Carnegie Institute sent Sam two invitations, likely before Mar. 10. One to the dedication of the Carnegie Institute’s new building in Pittsburg on Apr. 11-13, and also one for the conferring of degrees at the Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburg on Apr. 13. A third card requests an RSVP by Mar. 10 [MTP].
Mary R. Davis wrote from Stamford, Conn. to ask a favor of Sam. She was a post graduate student at NYU and president of Pi Alpha. She requested he visit and speak to the university students [MTP].
Charlotte A. England wrote on Detroit, Mich. Normal School stationery to secure Sam as a speaker [MTP].
Fedem (not further identified) wrote from Vienna, Austria to solicit Sam’s help in some injustice she compared to the Dreyfus case, but in Italy. The exact cause she was championing is not clear [MTP].
Jennie Pomerene wrote to Sam, enclosing a ticket for the College Women’s Club debut Scholarship Matinee, Tuesday Mar. 12 at 2:30 p.m. And, of course, the women were “great admirers” [MTP].