February 5 Monday – At 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y. Sam replied to William A. Caldwell (incoming not extant) who evidently had asked of something Sam spoke of in a recent talk; was it an example of “thought-transferrence”? No, it was simply an old maxim of his written in London ten years before that he’d made one of his texts in his speech. “The idea is pretty mouldy & commonplace. There isn’t anybody alive (or dead) who hasn’t used it from one to sixty times” [MTP].

Clemens’ A.D.   for this day: Dr. John Brown, continued—Incidents connected with Susy Clemens’s childhood—Bad spelling, etc. [AMT 1: 328-334].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Today Jean and I went up to see Dr. Peterson who is going to have charge of her case, her pitiful malady, if he feels that he can benefit her. She has been running down rapidly and looks badly, and is ill, really very ill” [MTP TS 24-25].

Melvin L. Severy wrote from Arlington Heights, Mass. to Sam. Severy was preparing a book on the Congo and asked for information Sam had used in “King Leopold’s Soliloquy.” Sam directed Lyon on Severy’s query: “All documents can be had of Congo Reform or from English Headquarters” [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal records her taking Jean Clemens to see Dr. Frederick Peterson, “who is going to take charge of her case, her pitiful malady, if he feels that he can benefit her” [Hill 121]. Note: Peterson of Columbia Univ. was American’s top authority on epilepsy.

Charles R. Deacon for the Union Printers’ Home, Colorado Springs, Colo. wrote to thank Sam for a copy of TA Sam had donated for their Home library [MTP].

Gertrude Natkin wrote to Sam (only the envelope survives), but in the file is a note from her journal, “I was very happy and sent Mark the following reply.” She does not reveal a copy of the letter [MTP].

February 5 ca.  – Isabel V. Lyon replied for Sam to David Pae’s Jan. 26 question that she thought Sam would name HF and JA as “perhaps his favorites” [MTP].