February 9 Sunday – Sam wrote to Alfred P. Burbank in Hot Springs, Ark., a letter which has been lost, (see Sam to Howells Jan. 31), advising him that he was recommending Burbank to Howard P. Taylor for the part of Hank Morgan in return for Burbank releasing rights to the Colonel Sellers play (The American Claimant) [MTHL 2: 629n1].

Sam wrote on the envelope to the American Water Color Society for Whitmore, “Please decline it,” and Whitmore wrote a note of regret to C. Harry Eaton of the Society. [MTP]. See Feb. 8.

Willard G. Day for Journalists’ Club, Baltimore, wrote soliciting Sam to speak at the club in “a couple or three months….If you answer don’t sign your name with a type-writer, as if I am hard up, I might sell your autograph” [MTP].