February 4 Sunday – Sam had breakfast at noon with Madame Nordica, who gave him a signed picture of herself. He had another engagement to dine at 3 p.m. and again at 7 p.m.

I got away from the breakfast at 2 p.m., went & excused myself from the 3-o’clock dinner, then lunched with Mrs. [Mary Mapes] Dodge in 58th street, returned to the Players & dressed, dined out at 7, & was back at Mrs. Dodge’s at 10 p.m., where we had magic lantern views of a superb sort, & a lot of yarns until an hour after midnight, & got to bed at 2 this morning — a good deal of gain on my recent hours [MTP: Feb. 5 to Clara].

Note: Lillian Norton Nordica (1857-1914), greatest American operatic soprano of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was born in Maine, and made her debut at Brescia in 1879. A 1908 recording of her singing “Mighty Lak’ a Rose” is online on the Wikipedia site under her name.