December 31 Sunday – On Players Club letterhead Sam wrote a short note thanking Curtis Bell.

I am very glad to foster & increase our kind of crime, & so I do the thing which you suggest [MTP].

Sam also wrote responding to a request for a photograph from Mr. Moskovitz. He thanked the man for his kind letter but hadn’t a photo “on the place.” They were probably with his family in Paris [MTP]. Note: this may have been Moritz Moskowski, Clara’s piano teacher in Berlin.

Sam also responded to a request from a Mr. Parker for an autograph, with one of his famous aphorisms:

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example [MTP].