April 6 Saturday – Sam’s letter of Apr. 7 reveals he was in Paris, when he wrote “Clara and I thought we had discovered exactly the flat” for Mrs. Clarence Rice, “last night” (Apr. 6). Sam also saw Mr. Macgowan and Mr. Southard, according to his Apr. 7 to H.H. Rogers.

Note: George Franklin Southard was a partner, and James G. Macgowan a manager in Bedford et Compagnie, a French partnership legally discrete from Standard Oil but running a refinery at Rouen for it; Rogers would have been acquainted with both men.