May 12 Tuesday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Dorothy Quick.

You dear little Dorothy, it was very fortunate that you escaped the pinkeye, for although a cold is bad, pinkeye is worse, & is a stubborn & painful malady.

I shall look for you Saturday morning with high anticipations. We’ve got a box for “Girls,” & they say it is very good, & is clean & wholesome & hasn’t any of that horrible ballet-dancing in it, such as we saw last Saturday.

Margaret Illington has been trying to get into our Aquarium, & I wouldn’t let her; but Sunday night she came here to dinner with her husband (Daniel Frohman), & she was dressed for 12 years, & had pink ribbons at the back of her neck & looked about 14 years old; so I admitted her as an angel-fish, & pinned the badge on her bosom. There’s lots of lady-candidates, but I guess we won’t let any more in, unless perhaps Billy Burke.

I’ve got something for you. It cost 10 cents. I took it away from Ashcroft.

I haven’t seen the kittens lately, but Tammany   came up Sunday night & jumped up on the table & helped us play billiards—uninvited. / With lots & lots of love, / SLC

Dear heart, we must start the Author’s League again [MTAq 154]. Note: source provides that Girls ran for 64 performances at Daly’s Theatre in New York and starred Laura Nelson Hall. Margaret Illington, wife of Daniel Frohman, manager of the Lyceum Theatre [n1-2].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Hunting clothes for Santa” [MTP: IVL TS 53].

Frank Bloodgood wrote to Sam, agreeing to “furnish and hang all wall papers, Japanese grass cloth, Burlap, etc., prepare and tint all ceilings, paint all bath rooms, etc. at your residence in Redding…for the sum of …$1,285.00” [MTP].

Angie J. King wrote from Janesville, Wisc. to praise CS [MTP].