February 28 Thursday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam replied to the Feb. 27 from Emil Leopold Boas. “No, I should not know how to go about it. I once tried to shirk a duty, 25 years ago, & to this day I still suffer agonies of remorse every time I think of it” [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: “AB home. Candace Wheeler – Mrs. Stuart. Drake Sale” [MTP TS 32].
Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to George Griswold, real estate agent. The house Griswold had shown to Lyon and the description she’d given of it to Sam, would “meet his requirements” but he did “not care to pay over fifteen hundred dollars for a house for the Season—May 1 to Nov. 1 , and to ask if you will make that offer to the owners of the place” [MTP].
Sam also wrote instructions to Isabel Lyon to thank Georgiana R. Laffan (Mrs. William Mackay Laffan) for the Christian Science article, and to ask the Laffans for “dinner or luncheon” [MTP].
Archer H. Barber wrote on Berkshire Club stationery, N. Adams, Mass. to urge Sam to accompany Clara when she gave her concert there on Monday evening next. He enclosed a ticket to use the club [MTP].
Redmond S. Cole, editor-in-chief of The Independent, published by the students of the Missouri University wrote to Sam. “The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Feb. 25, 1907 has in it a statement to the effect that you, along with Senator Thomas H. Benton and General Frank P. Blair, favor the pronunciation of Missouri as though it were spelled Mizzoura.” Could he confirm? [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote for Sam: “Yes the Post-Dispatch was correct & I still adhere.”
Samuel S. McClure wrote to Sam. “I expect in time to publish in McClure’s Magazine a thorough and clear investigation of osteopathy….unless osteopathy is legalized by the legislature…it will be impossible to practice it in this State….Therefore, I want you to give me a word about osteopathy. I am sure that the Messrs. Harpers will not care to publish what you write about it” [MTP]. Note: Lyon for Sam: “For various reasons (& indignations) the subject does not interest me”. Osteopathy had lost its appeal to Clemens by this time.
Jennie Pomerene for the Women’s College Club (NY) wrote to invite Sam to sit in a box with Dr. James Monroe Taylor, Vassar President, General Nelson Appleton Miles, General James Grant Wilson, ex-Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate, and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University—at their matinee benefit Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2:30 p.m. [MTP].
Frank D. Stafford, Mayor of North Adams, Mass. wrote to Sam, having learned of Clara’s performance there the following week. He extended “a cordial invitation” for Sam to come [MTP].
Stony Wold Sanitorium sent Sam a program for an afternoon concert to benefit their farm fund, Waldorf-Astoria, Feb. 28 at 3:30 p.m. [MTP].
George E. Sullivan, Wash. D.C. attorney wrote to Sam. “I beg to thank you for your favor of the 26th inst. written by your secretary…If I am successful in securing a copy of the dramatization [Col.Sellers] I will be only too glad to let you read it.” He had written the day before from the Carroll Institute, that wanted to put on the dramatization [MTP].
Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.