September 2 Friday – In Kaltenleutgeben, Austria, Sam wrote to Edward Bok, editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, suggesting “My Platonic Sweetheart” as suitable “for a periodical whose specialty is the fireside, the home.” It was longer than Bok had wanted and Sam’s price was $1,000, but Sam was mailing it that day—if Bok didn’t want it would he please mail it to H.H. Rogers. Sam had found a long letter he’d written Bok “3 or 4 months ago” among his papers, in which he “explained how I must have managed to give Mrs. Selfridge a wrong idea of what I was meaning to say” [MTP]. Note: Bok did not want the story; it was published by Harpers, Dec. 1912. Susan Kearny Selfridge, daughter of General Philip Kearny. Sam’s notebook in early 1897 lists: “Permanent address: / Mrs. Susan Selfridge (for Bok’s Home Journal) / c/o B.F. Stevens / 4 Trafalgar Square” [NB 41 TS 2].

Sam’s notebook: “Wrote Mr. Speiser we have concluded to live at the Krantz” [NB 40 TS 32]. Note: Speiser may have been connected with either the Krantz or the Metropole Hotel, as a bidding contest had ensued.