January 5 Sunday – H.H. Rogers and wife paid a call on Sam at 21 Fifth Ave.

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  Mr. Lawrence, president of the Lotos club were here today to talk up the dinner that is to be given next Saturday evening in the King’s honor & the Oxford degree is to be made the feature of it. All day the King was in bed & he is resting up from these long fearful billiard nights, when he played so nervously from 8:3- until 12-1-2 & even 4 o’clock— that time—

He dined with the Colliers & Mr. and Mrs. Dan Frohman. Ethel Barrymore, Mr. & Mrs. Dooley, R.H. Davis were there and he said it was a “kissing bee:. Everyone of course wants to kiss him, for his the lovablest creature.

Mr. and Mrs. Rogers came in too. I tried to find a change in Mr. Rogers since his stroke last July. But there are no effects of it visible now [MTP: IVL TS 3-4]. Note: Richard Harding Davis.