May 19 Monday

May 19 Monday ca. – On or about this day Sam was in New York City where he put a card on Andrew Carnegie’s door, “I mean to ring your doorbell toward 8 this evening, Mr. Carnegie.” The card had Sam’s name and the Murray Hill Hotel on it [MTP].

James W. Paige telegrammed Sam at the Murray Hill Hotel: “Hamersley in NY will write the papers myself” [MTP].

Mary Davis wrote from Baltimore asking Sam to use his influence for her at Johns Hopkins College Medical School. She wrote he must be “accustomed to being addressed by unknown correspondents” [MTP].