June 12 Friday – Sam was in Fairhaven, Mass. to confer with Rogers about business matters relating to Collier’s offers and arranging agreements between Collier’s, Harpers, and the American Publishing Co. Rogers had been recuperating from an appendectomy. Until this date, Livy had not been well enough to allow Sam to leave Riverdale. On June 15 Lyon wrote that Sam “came back this morning from a little visit with Mr. Rogers and being very tired has gone to his room.” On June 25 Sam wrote Rogers that he’d “had a perfectly gaudy time in Fairhaven.”

Sam’s notebook: “Well, as nearly as I can word my impression of him, he is the kind of man who would

crowd in ahead of God in a procession” [NB 46 TS 19]. Note: Sam said this of George B. Harvey at a Nov.

28, 1902 banquet.