March 24 Saturday – Sam was still in Washington. His notebook carries names of people to see and errands to complete while in the Capitol: Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson wife of the lawyer and prominent art patron; he visited Colonel Alexander Bliss at 9:30 one of these evenings. Bliss was the son of Mrs. George Bancroft by her previous husband. Sam visited George Bancroft (1800-1891), then 87 years young.

Also on Sam’s list was Mrs. Lucius Tuckerman, granddaughter of Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Lucius Tuckerman was an iron manufacturer.

Leave cards at Tuckerman’s in afternoon Thursday [MTNJ 3: 381].

Written in for this date at 8:30 p.m. was “Mrs. Kaufman,” probably wife of Samuel Hay Kauffmann, one of the owners of the Washington Evening Star and member of the Washington Literary Society. A reference to this “literary club” includes General Adolphus Washington Greely, arctic explorer, author, and scientist. Greely helped found the National Geographic Society this year and was a regular contributor to its pages.